Bug#908168: okular: CVE-2018-1000801

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: okular
Version: 4:17.12.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for okular.

CVE-2018-1000801[0]:
| okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal
| vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in
| "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the
| user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim
| must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to
| have been corrected in version 18.08.1

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000801
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000801
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096
[2] https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore