Public bug reported:
gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on
imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python
code that contains an os.system call.
** Affects: calibre (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: Fix Released
** Affects: calibre (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: High
Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
Status: New
** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2018-7889
** Also affects: calibre (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Artful)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Title:
[CVE] Use JSON to prevent malicious bookmark files from causing code
execution
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