High
Security advisory
Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000159
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.
osv:CVE-2017-1000159
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:06.979194037Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"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://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784947"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 441100,
"published_at": "2017-11-27T15:29:00.243+00:00"
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