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 vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4067-1 First vendor Publication 2019-07-22
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-07-22
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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Evince could be made to crash or run arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted PDF file.

Software Description: - evince: Document viewer

Details:

It was discovered that Evince incorrectly handled certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.6
evince-common 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4067-1
CVE-2019-1010006

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/3.18.2-1ubuntu4.6

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4067-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1
Os 3
Os 2

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Date Informations
2019-07-22 21:19:01
  • First insertion