CVE-2017-1000083 Affecting evince package, versions <3.22.1-3+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
25.31% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-EVINCE-323947
  • published5 Sept 2017
  • disclosed5 Sept 2017

Introduced: 5 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-1000083  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 evince to version 3.22.1-3+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evince package and not the evince package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

backend/comics/comics-document.c (aka the comic book backend) in GNOME Evince before 3.24.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .cbt file that is a TAR archive containing a filename beginning with a "--" command-line option substring, as demonstrated by a --checkpoint-action=exec=bash at the beginning of the filename.