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Posted on 14 July 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3911-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 14, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : evince
CVE ID : CVE-2017-1000083
Felix Wilhelm 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 the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 3.14.1-2+deb8u2.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.22.1-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
