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Debian DSA-3911-1 : evince - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 101556

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Evince document viewer made insecure use of tar when opening tar comic book archives (CBT). Opening a malicious CBT archive could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
This update disables the CBT format entirely.

Solution

Upgrade the evince packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.14.1-2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/evince

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/evince

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3911

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101556

File Name: debian_DSA-3911.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Evince CBT File Command Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000083

DSA: 3911