{"id":"USN-3351-1","summary":"evince vulnerability","details":"Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when\nhandling tar comic book (cbt) files. An attacker could use this to\nconstruct a malicious cbt comic book format file that, when opened\nin Evince, executes arbitrary code. Please note that this update\ndisables support for cbt files in Evince.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:37:25.096020Z","published":"2017-07-13T17:06:21Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000083"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-1000083","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000083"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3351-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000083"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"evince","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/evince@3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"}]}],"versions":["3.10.0-0ubuntu2","3.10.0-0ubuntu3","3.10.2-0ubuntu1","3.10.3-0ubuntu1","3.10.3-0ubuntu2","3.10.3-0ubuntu3","3.10.3-0ubuntu4","3.10.3-0ubuntu5","3.10.3-0ubuntu6","3.10.3-0ubuntu7","3.10.3-0ubuntu8","3.10.3-0ubuntu9","3.10.3-0ubuntu10","3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1","3.10.3-0ubuntu10.2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"evince","binary_version":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"},{"binary_name":"evince-common","binary_version":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"},{"binary_name":"evince-gtk","binary_version":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"},{"binary_name":"gir1.2-evince-3.0","binary_version":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"},{"binary_name":"libevdocument3-4","binary_version":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"},{"binary_name":"libevview3-3","binary_version":"3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-1000083","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3351-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"evince","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/evince@3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1"}]}],"versions":["3.16.1-0ubuntu1","3.18.1-1ubuntu1","3.18.1-1ubuntu2","3.18.2-1ubuntu1","3.18.2-1ubuntu2","3.18.2-1ubuntu3","3.18.2-1ubuntu4"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"evince","binary_version":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1"},{"binary_version":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1","binary_name":"evince-common"},{"binary_name":"evince-gtk","binary_version":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1"},{"binary_version":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1","binary_name":"gir1.2-evince-3.0"},{"binary_name":"libevdocument3-4","binary_version":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1"},{"binary_name":"libevview3-3","binary_version":"3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-1000083","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3351-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}