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CVE-2017-1000083

Published: Sep 5, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

exploit

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/128

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/GNOME/evince/commit/717df38fd8509bf883b70d680c9b1b3cf36732ee

x_refsource_MISC

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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exploit

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