Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1243-1 evince -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 28 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- evince
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5864.
- More information:
-
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.
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.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your evince package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.