GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-450

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published December 16, 2017

It was discovered that Evince incorrectly handled printing certain DVI files. If a user were tricked into opening and printing a specially-named DVI file, an attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2017-1000159)

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	evince	3.14.2-2.1.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected)	—
Mageia	evince	0 (affected), 3.24.1-2.mga6 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-1000159

References

Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

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