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High RLSA-2026:27819 1 CVE

Important: evince security update

Published Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 24, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.

Security Fix(es):

* atril: evince: xreader: PDF /GoToR action argv injection enables single-click RCE via --gtk-module dlopen (CVE-2026-46529)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 evince 0:40.5-4.el9_8.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.4
    CVE-2026-46529 Public exploit

    PDF /GoToR action argv injection enables single-click RCE via --gtk-module dlopen

    Atril Document Viewer is the default document reader of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. A single-click remote code execution vulnerability in versions prior to 1.26.3 and 1.28.4 allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution as the user by tri…

    mate-desktop atril evince atril Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487669