GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-251

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published August 8, 2017

It was discovered that Atril 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 (CVE-2017-1000083).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	atril	0 (affected), 1.18.0-1.1.mga6 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	atril	0 (affected), 1.8.1-3.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-1000083

Transitive aliases

GHSA-c796-cmwx-5c79 BDU:2018-00111 EUVD-2017-1400 VVD-GENTOO-2017-624882 VVD-MAGEIA-2017-244

References

Updated atril packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated atril packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated atril packages fix security vulnerability

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