OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package evince  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-EVINCE-618478
  • published27 Nov 2017
  • disclosed27 Nov 2017

Introduced: 27 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-1000159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evince package and not the evince package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.