cve/2017/CVE-2017-1000083.md

CVE-2017-1000083

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/128
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45824/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46341/

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/matlink/cve-2017-1000083-atril-nautilus
• https://github.com/matlink/evince-cve-2017-1000083