Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1882-1 atril -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 13 Aug 2019
- Affected Packages:
- atril
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000159, CVE-2019-11459, CVE-2019-1010006.
- More information:
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A few issues were found in Atril, the MATE document viewer.
- CVE-2017-1000159
When printing from DVI to PDF, the dvipdfm tool was called without properly sanitizing the filename, which could lead to a command injection attack via the filename.
- CVE-2019-11459
The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() did not check the status of TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory access if that funcion fails.
- CVE-2019-1010006
Some buffer overflow checks were not properly done, leading to application crash or possibly arbitrary code execution when opening maliciously crafted files.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.1+dfsg1-4+deb8u2.We recommend that you upgrade your atril packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
- CVE-2017-1000159