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.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46341/ ↗
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/128 ↗
- https://github.com/GNOME/evince/commit/717df38fd8509bf883b70d680c9b1b3cf36732ee ↗
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99597 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2388 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3911 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45824/ ↗