It was discovered that Okular mishandled certain crafted archives during extraction. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
{ "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro", "binaries": [ { "binary_name": "libokular5core8", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "libokular5core8-dbgsym", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "okular", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "okular-dbgsym", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "okular-dev", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "okular-extra-backends", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "okular-extra-backends-dbgsym", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "okular-mobile", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "qml-module-org-kde-okular", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" }, { "binary_name": "qml-module-org-kde-okular-dbgsym", "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1" } ] }