Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0244 (evince)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0244: Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sat, 5 Aug 2017 21:20:20 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0244 - Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Aug 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0244.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5, 6
CVE: CVE-2017-1000083

Description:
Felix Wilhelm discovered that Evince did not safely invoke tar when handling
tar comic book (cbt) files. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious
cbt comic book format file that, when opened in Evince, executes arbitrary
code. Please note that this update disables support for cbt files in Evince
(CVE-2017-1000083).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21239
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3351-1/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10...

SRPMS:
- 6/core/evince-3.24.1-1.mga6
- 5/core/evince-3.14.2-1.1.mga5