Advisories » MGASA-2017-0251

Updated atril packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Aug 2017
Modification date: 08 Aug 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-1000083

Description

It was discovered that Atril made insecure use of tar when opening tar
comic book archives (CBT). Opening a malicious CBT archive could result
in the execution of arbitrary code. This update disables the CBT format
entirely (CVE-2017-1000083).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21326
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3916
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000083

SRPMS

6/core

• atril-1.18.0-1.1.mga6

5/core

• atril-1.8.1-3.1.mga5