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.