Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Evince: Command injection
Informations
Name GLSA-201804-15 First vendor Publication 2018-04-17
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-04-17
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Evince which may allow for arbitrary command execution.

Background

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, including PostScript.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in Evince's handling of filenames while printing PDF files.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process a specially crafted file, could execute arbitrary commands.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Evince users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/evince-3.24.2-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-1000159 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000159

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-15

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201804-15.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-04-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201804-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1009.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-d6402c8005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1204.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3503-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-04-17 21:18:49
  • First insertion