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Critical Security Update for Fedora 26 Evince: Command Injection Fix

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A significant security concern involving the Evince application in Fedora 26 has been resolved with a recent update addressing command injection vulnerabilities. Learn more here
- 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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 3.24.0
Release: 3.fc26
Summary: Document viewer

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