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Alpine: multiple evince packages: security update to 3.24.0-r2

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 404234

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - backend/comics/comics-document.c (aka the comic book backend) in GNOME Evince before 3.24.1 allows remote
 attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .cbt file that is a TAR archive containing a filename
 beginning with a "--" command-line option substring, as demonstrated by a --checkpoint-action=exec=bash at
 the beginning of the filename. (CVE-2017-1000083)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-1000083

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404234

Version: Revision 1.31

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.37

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Evince CBT File Command Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000083

BID: 99597