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openSUSE 42.2: 2017:1933-1 Important Evince Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial patch for Evince addresses vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution on openSUSE platforms. Keep updated with the specifics!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for evince fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-1000083: Remote attackers could have used the comicbook mode of

evince to inject shell code. (bsc#1046856, bgo#784630)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-834=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

evince-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-browser-plugin-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-browser-plugin-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-debugsource-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-devel-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-comicsdocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-comicsdocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-djvudocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-djvudocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-dvidocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-dvidocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-pdfdocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-pdfdocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-psdocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-psdocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-tiffdocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-tiffdocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-xpsdocument-3.20.1-2.3.1

evince-plugin-xpsdocument-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

libevdocument3-4-3.20.1-2.3.1

libevdocument3-4-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

libevview3-3-3.20.1-2.3.1

libevview3-3-debuginfo-3.20.1-2.3.1

nautilus-evince-3.20.1-2.3.1

nautilus-evince-debugi...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000083.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1046856

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1933-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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