Debian 7 DLA-1204-1 Critical: Evince Command Injection Threat
debian lts
December 11, 2017
It was discovered that there was an arbitrary command injection in the evince PDF viewer
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Summary
A specially-crafted embedded DVI filename could be exploited to run
commands as the current user when "printing" to PDF.
For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in evince version
3.4.0-3.1+deb7u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.
Regards,
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Package: evince
Version: 3.4.0-3.1+deb7u2
CVE ID: CVE-2017-1000159
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