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Debian DSA-1243-1 : evince - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 23948

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Renaud Lifchitz discovered that gv, the PostScript and PDF viewer for X, performs insufficient boundary checks in the Postscript parsing code, which allows the execution of arbitrary code through a buffer overflow. Evince embeds a copy of gv and needs an update as well.

Solution

Upgrade the evince package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.5-2sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-3.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1243

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 23948

File Name: debian_DSA-1243.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2006

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5864

DSA: 1243