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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704624
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4624-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'evince' package(s) announced via the DSA-4624-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'evince' package(s) announced via the DSA-4624-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in evince, a simple multi-page document viewer.

CVE-2017-1000159

Tobias Mueller reported that the DVI exporter in evince is susceptible to a command injection vulnerability via specially crafted filenames.

CVE-2019-11459

Andy Nguyen reported that the tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to disclosure of uninitialized memory when processing TIFF image files.

CVE-2019-1010006

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the tiff backend could lead to denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted PDF file is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.22.1-3+deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 3.30.2-3+deb10u1. The stable distribution is only affected by CVE-2019-11459.

We recommend that you upgrade your evince packages.

For the detailed security status of evince please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'evince' package(s) on Debian 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-1000159
Bugtraq: 20200216 [SECURITY] [DSA 4624-1] evince security update (Google Search)
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18
Debian Security Information: DSA-4624 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-15
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00006.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-1010006
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2745
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788980
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1908 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00046.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4067-1/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-11459
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7LU4YZK5S46TZAH4J3NYYUYFMOC47LJG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJ6R7NMY44IHIQIY24CV3WV2GLGJPQPZ/
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1129
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:3553
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1667 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00089.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3959-1/
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