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SciLinux: SLSA-2017-2388-1 Important Evince Command Injection Mitigation

Calendar Aug 21, 2017 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory security fix arbitrary command command injection x86_64 evince SL7
It was found that evince did not properly sanitize the command line which is run to untar Comic Book Tar (CBT) files, thereby allowing command injection. A specially crafted CBT file, when opened by evince or evince- thumbnailer, could execute arbitrary commands in the context of the evince program. (CVE-2017-1000083) SL7 x86_64 evince-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm evince-debuginfo-3. [More...] 
Synopsis:          Important: evince security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2017:2388-1
Issue Date:        2017-08-02
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2017-1000083
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Security Fix(es):

* It was found that evince did not properly sanitize the command line
which is run to untar Comic Book Tar (CBT) files, thereby allowing command
injection. A specially crafted CBT file, when opened by evince or evince-
thumbnailer, could execute arbitrary commands in the context of the evince
program. (CVE-2017-1000083)
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SL7
  x86_64
    evince-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
    evince-debuginfo-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.i686.rpm
    evince-debuginfo-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
    evince-dvi-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
    evince-libs-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.i686.rpm
    evince-libs-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
    evince-nautilus-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
    evince-browser-plugin-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
    evince-devel-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.i686.rpm
    evince-devel-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team