Out-of-bounds Write Affecting evince package, versions <3.22.1-3+deb9u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-EVINCE-452218
  • published24 Jul 2019
  • disclosed15 Jul 2019

Introduced: 15 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-1010006  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 evince to version 3.22.1-3+deb9u2 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.

Evince 3.26.0 is affected by buffer overflow. The impact is: DOS / Possible code execution. The component is: backend/tiff/tiff-document.c. The attack vector is: Victim must open a crafted PDF file. The issue occurs because of an incorrect integer overflow protection mechanism in tiff_document_render and tiff_document_get_thumbnail.

CVSS Scores

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