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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200704-06">
+ <title>Evince: Stack overflow in included gv code</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Evince improperly handles user-supplied data possibly allowing for the
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">evince</product>
+ <announced>2007-04-06</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-04-06</revised>
+ <bug>156573</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-text/evince" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.6.1-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.1-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, including
+ PostScript.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Evince includes code from GNU gv that does not properly boundary check
+ user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript
+ document with Evince and possibly execute arbitrary code with the
+ rights of the user running Evince.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Evince users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/evince-0.6.1-r3"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5864">CVE-2006-5864</uri>
+ <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-20.xml">GLSA-200611-20</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-03-29T16:08:33Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-02T13:26:04Z">
+ aetius
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-03T22:29:26Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>