DSA-1243-1 evince -- buffer overflow

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

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.