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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-244
GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-244
Advisory Published
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
(CVE-2017-1000083).
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | evince | 0 (affected), 3.14.2-1.1.mga5 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | evince | 0 (affected), 3.24.1-1.mga6 (unaffected) | — |
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