Evince: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, including PostScript.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Evince. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to load a DVI file with a specially crafted font, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application or a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Evince users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/evince-2.32.0-r2"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since April 26, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.