Debian: DLA-1881-1 Critical Evince Security Issues and Fixes
debian lts
August 13, 2019
A few issues were found in the Evince document viewer
Summary
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 funcion 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.
For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
3.14.1-2+deb8u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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Package: evince
Version: 3.14.1-2+deb8u3
CVE ID: CVE-2017-1000159 CVE-2019-11459 CVE-2019-1010006
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