glsa-200704-06.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200704-06">
  <title>Evince: Stack overflow in included gv code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Evince improperly handles user-supplied data possibly allowing for the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">evince</product>
  <announced>April 06, 2007</announced>
  <revised>April 06, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>156573</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/evince" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.1-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.1-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, including
    PostScript.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Evince includes code from GNU gv that does not properly boundary check
    user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript
    document with Evince and possibly execute arbitrary code with the
    rights of the user running Evince.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Evince users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/evince-0.6.1-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5864">CVE-2006-5864</uri>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-20.xml">GLSA-200611-20</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:08:33 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:26:04 +0000">
    aetius
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:29:26 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>