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This bug was fixed in the package calibre - 3.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1

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calibre (3.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1) artful-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Malicious code execution when using CPickle instead of
    JSON (LP: #1758699).
    - fix-CVE-2018-7889.patch
    - CVE-2018-7889

 -- Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@xxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:02:07 -0500

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Artful)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  [CVE] JavaScript in a book can access local files using XMLHttpRequest

Status in calibre package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in calibre source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed
Status in calibre source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in calibre source package in Artful:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  For CVE-2016-10187:
  The E-book viewer in calibre before 2.75 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted epub file with JavaScript.

  For CVE-2018-7889:
  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.

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