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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Evince vulnerability (USN-3351-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101545

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3351-1 advisory.

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3351-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101545

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3351-1.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evince-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evince, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libevview3-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evince-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libevince-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libevdocument3-4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-evince-3.0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Evince CBT File Command Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000083

USN: 3351-1