PT-2017-3934 · Gnome+3 · Evince+3

Tobias Mueller · Published 2017-09-17 · Updated 2020-02-14 · CVE-2017-1000159

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Evince versions prior to 3.25.91

Description The issue is related to command injection in Evince when printing to PDF, specifically due to inadequate handling of special elements in filenames. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.25.91, update to version 3.25.91 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of filenames that could be used to inject commands when printing to PDF.

Fix

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2220

BDU:2020-01828

CVE-2017-1000159

DLA-1204-1

DLA-1881-1

DLA-1882-1

DSA-4624-1

MGASA-2017-0450

SUSE-SU-2018:0639-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0947-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0639-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0947-1

USN-3503-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Evince

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 55

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1881-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000159 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0450 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000159 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0450.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11459 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3503-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se16-bulletin-20200327SE16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/evince · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0639-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/atril · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1010006 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1882-1 · Vendor Advisory