{"id":"MGASA-2017-0244","summary":"Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability","details":"Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when handling\ntar comic book (cbt) files. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious\ncbt comic book format file that, when opened in Evince, executes arbitrary\ncode. Please note that this update disables support for cbt files in Evince\n(CVE-2017-1000083).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T01:49:17.854826943Z","published":"2017-08-05T19:19:47Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-1000083"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0244.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21239"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3351-1/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"evince","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/evince?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.2-1.1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0244.json"}},{"package":{"name":"evince","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/evince?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.24.1-1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0244.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}