USN-3351-1: Evince vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• evince - Document viewer

Details

Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when
handling tar comic book (cbt) files. An attacker could use this to
construct a malicious cbt comic book format file that, when opened
in Evince, executes arbitrary code. Please note that this update
disables support for cbt files in Evince.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04

• evince - 3.24.0-0ubuntu1.1
• evince-common - 3.24.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.10

• evince - 3.22.0-0ubuntu1.1
• evince-common - 3.22.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• evince - 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1
• evince-common - 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• evince - 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3
• evince-common - 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3

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

References

• CVE-2017-1000083