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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : evince (SUSE-SU-2017:1894-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101808

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for evince fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-1000083: Remote attackers could have used the comicbook mode of evince to inject shell code.
 (bsc#1046856, bgo#784630)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1170=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1170=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-1170=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-1170=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-1170=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046856

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000083/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8d244e34

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101808

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1894-1.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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 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:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:evince-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libevdocument3-4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libevview3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:evince, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libevdocument3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:evince-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libevview3-3-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

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