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Debian DLA-1031-1 : evince security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 101792

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

from the Google Security Team 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.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.0-3.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/07/msg00022.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101792

File Name: debian_DLA-1031.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince-gtk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-evince-3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libevdocument3-4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libevince-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libevview3-3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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: 7/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Evince CBT File Command Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000083