CVE-2017-1000159
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.20.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.20.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.20.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.20.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.20.0-1 |
| sles | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnome | evince | {"endExcluding":"3.25.91"} | 3.25.91 |
References
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784947
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00006.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000159
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000159.html
CWEs
CWE-78
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.