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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2018-dcba329g72 High: GNOME Shell XSS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update for Evince mitigates a critical command injection vulnerability, strengthening the overall integrity and reliability of the operating system.
- CVE-2017-1000083: Evince command injection vulnerability in CBT handler (#1468488)

Summary

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 bookmarks and editing of forms.

Support for other document formats such as DVI and DJVU can be added by

installing additional backends.

- CVE-2017-1000083: Evince command injection vulnerability in CBT handler

(#1468488)

[ 1 ] Bug #1468488 - CVE-2017-1000083 evince: command injection via filename in tar-compressed comics archive

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468488

su -c 'dnf upgrade evince' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.22.1
Release: 5.fc25
Summary: Document viewer

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