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Debian 10: DSA-4624-1 Critical Evince Command Injection and DoS

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2020
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in evince, a simple multi-page document viewer

Summary

CVE-2017-1000159

Tobias Mueller reported that the DVI exporter in evince is
susceptible to a command injection vulnerability via specially
crafted filenames.

CVE-2019-11459

Andy Nguyen reported that the tiff_document_render() and
tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend
did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to
disclosure of uninitialized memory when processing TIFF image files.

CVE-2019-1010006

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the tiff backend could lead to
denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if
a specially crafted PDF file is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.22.1-3+deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.30.2-3+deb10u1. The stable distribution is only affected by
CVE-2019-11459.

We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.

For the detailed security status of ev...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: evince
CVE ID: CVE-2017-1000159 CVE-2019-11459 CVE-2019-1010006

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