CentOS 7 : evince (CESA-2017:2388)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102761

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for evince is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was found that evince did not properly sanitize the command line which is run to untar Comic Book Tar (CBT) files, thereby allowing command injection. A specially crafted CBT file, when opened by evince or evince-thumbnailer, could execute arbitrary commands in the context of the evince program. (CVE-2017-1000083)

Red Hat would like to thank Felix Wilhelm (Google Security Team) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected evince packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102761

File Name: centos_RHSA-2017-2388.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 8/25/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evince-browser-plugin, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evince-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evince-nautilus, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evince-dvi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evince-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evince

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Evince CBT File Command Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000083

RHSA: 2017:2388

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