FreeBSD : evince and atril -- command injection vulnerability in CBT handler (01a197ca-67f1-11e7-a266-28924a333806)

GNOME reports : The comic book backend in evince 3.24.0 and earlier is vulnerable to a command injection bug that can be used to execute arbitrary commands when a CBT file is opened. The same vulnerability affects atril, the Evince fork. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Scientific Linux Security Update : evince on SL7.x x86_64 (20170802)

Security Fixes : - It was found that evince did not properly sanitize the command line which is run to untar Comic Book Tar CBT files, thereby allowing command injection. A specially crafted CBT file, when opened by evince or evince- thumbnailer, could execute arbitrary commands in the context of...

Fedora 24 : evince (2017-06c1422db8)

CVE-2017-1000083: Evince command injection vulnerability in CBT handler 1468488 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

Oracle Linux 7 : evince (ELSA-2017-2388)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-2388 advisory. 3.22.1-5.2 - Related: 1469528 ensure .desktop file is still valid 3.22.1-5.1 + Fix arbitrary code execution via filename in tar-compressed comics archive -...

evince security update

3.22.1-5.2 - Related: 1469528 ensure .desktop file is still valid 3.22.1-5.1 + Fix arbitrary code execution via filename in tar-compressed comics archive - Resolves: 1469528...

Fedora Update for evince FEDORA-2017-06c1422db8

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when handling tar comic book cbt files. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious cbt comic book format file that, when opened in Evince, executes arbitrary code. Please note that this update disables support for cbt files i...

MGASA-2017-0244 Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when handling tar comic book cbt files. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious cbt comic book format file that, when opened in Evince, executes arbitrary code. Please note that this update disables support for cbt files i...

RedHat Update for evince RHSA-2017:2388-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for evince FEDORA-2017-0f75ee2f38

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: evince-3.20.1-3.fc24

Evince is simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print Portable Document Format PDF, PostScript PS and Encapsulated PostScript EPS files. When supported by the document format, evince allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, table-of-contents...

RHEL 7 : evince (RHSA-2017:2388)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2388 advisory. The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format PDF, PostScript PS, Encapsulated PostScript EPS files,...

evince: command injection via filename in tar-compressed comics archive

It was found that evince did not properly sanitize the command line which is run to untar Comic Book Tar CBT files, thereby allowing command injection. A specially crafted CBT file, when opened by evince or evince-thumbnailer, could execute arbitrary commands in the context of the evince program...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: evince security update

An update for evince is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

openSUSE Security Update : evince (openSUSE-2017-834)

This update for evince fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-1000083: Remote attackers could have used the comicbook mode of evince to inject shell code. bsc1046856, bgo784630 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

Evince Comic Book Backend Command Injection Vulnerability

Evince is a GNOME desktop environment of a PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI document viewing tools. A remote command injection vulnerability exists in Evince version 3.24.0. A remote attacker can use this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary commands in the context of an affected...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for evince (openSUSE-SU-2017:1933-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for evince (important)

This update for evince fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-1000083: Remote attackers could have used the comicbook mode of evince to inject shell code. bsc1046856, bgo784630 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project...

Debian DLA-1031-1 : evince security update

from the Google Security Team discovered that the Evince document viewer made insecure use of tar when opening tar comic book archives CBT. Opening a malicious CBT archive could result in the execution of arbitrary code. This update disables the CBT format entirely. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : evince (SUSE-SU-2017:1894-1)

This update for evince fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-1000083: Remote attackers could have used the comicbook mode of evince to inject shell code. bsc1046856, bgo784630 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security...