MGASA-2017-0450

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    MGASA-2017-0450

    Published: 16 Dec 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that Evince incorrectly handled printing certain DVI files. If a user were tricked into opening and printing a specially-named DVI file, an attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2017-1000159)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0450.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22131, https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000159, https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3503-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: evince

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.14.2-2.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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