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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1881-1] evince security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'evince' package(s) announced via the DSA-1881-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
A few issues were found in the Evince document viewer. CVE-2017-1000159 When printing from DVI to PDF, the dvipdfm tool was called without properly sanitizing the filename, which could lead to a command injection attack via the filename. CVE-2019-11459 The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() did not check the status of TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory access if that function fails. CVE-2019-1010006 Some buffer overflow checks were not properly done, leading to application crash or possibly arbitrary code execution when opening maliciously crafted files.
Affected Software
Affected Software
'evince' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.14.1-2+deb8u3. We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.