RHSA-2020:1173 — Security Advisory

An update for okular is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE supporting different kinds of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.

Security Fix(es):

• okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp (CVE-2018-1000801)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.