<?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>2007-04-06</announced> <revised count="01">2007-04-06</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 ">=app-text/evince-0.6.1-r3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5864">CVE-2006-5864</uri> <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-20.xml">GLSA-200611-20</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-03-29T16:08:33Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-02T13:26:04Z"> aetius </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-03T22:29:26Z"> falco </metadata> </glsa>