MGASA-2017-0244

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    MGASA-2017-0244

    Published: 5 Aug 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when handling tar comic book (cbt) files. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious cbt comic book format file that, when opened in Evince, executes arbitrary code. Please note that this update disables support for cbt files in Evince (CVE-2017-1000083).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0244.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21239, https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3351-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: evince

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/evince?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.14.2-1.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High