MGASA-2018-0399 - Updated calibre packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0399.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-7889

Updated calibre package fixes security vulnerability:

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 (CVE-2018-7889).

The python-html5-parser package is a new dependency for the updated calibre
package and has been included with this update.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22814
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/VUNMTXK3UTN636LOBG63UDSTVM4AF26T/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7889

SRPMS:
- 6/core/calibre-3.27.1-2.mga6
- 6/core/python-html5-parser-0.4.4-1.1.mga6