ghsa-c796-cmwx-5c79
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:40
Modified
2025-04-20 03:44
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

backend/comics/comics-document.c (aka the comic book backend) in GNOME Evince before 3.24.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .cbt file that is a TAR archive containing a filename beginning with a "--" command-line option substring, as demonstrated by a --checkpoint-action=exec=bash at the beginning of the filename.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-1000083"
  ],
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    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-09-05T06:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-c796-cmwx-5c79",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:44:18Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:40:55Z",
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45824"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46341"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/128"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3911"
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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