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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871868
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Update for evince RHSA-2017:2388-01
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'evince'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'evince'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
The evince packages provide a simple
multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS),
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the
Device Independent File format (DVI) files. 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) Red
Hat would like to thank Felix Wilhelm (Google Security Team) for reporting this
issue.

Affected Software/OS:
evince on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)

Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-1000083
BugTraq ID: 99597
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99597
Debian Security Information: DSA-3911 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3911
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45824/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46341/
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/128
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630
https://github.com/GNOME/evince/commit/717df38fd8509bf883b70d680c9b1b3cf36732ee
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:2388
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2388
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG

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