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evince update

Published Jun 19, 2019 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the AppArmor profile for the
Evince thumbnailer to reduce access to the system and adjusts the AppArmor
profile for Evince and Evince previewer to limit access to the DBus system
bus. Additionally adjust the evince abstraction to disallow writes on
parent directories of sensitive files.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.5
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS evince 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1788929
  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1794848