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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46529

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

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 tricking them into clicking a link inside a malicious PDF document. The PDF can be packaged as a polyglot file that is simultaneously a valid PDF and a valid ELF shared library, making the attack a single-file, single-click, configuration-independent RCE on stock atril installations. The root cause is `shell/ev-application.c:ev_spawn`, which builds a command line from attacker-controlled PDF link-destination fields without applying `g_shell_quote`. The cmdline is then handed to `g_app_info_create_from_commandline`, which shell-parses it back into argv — splitting any embedded `--gtk-module=PATH` into a separate argv element. GTK then `dlopen()`s the path during init, running any `__attribute__((constructor))` it finds. Versions 1.26.3 and 1.28.4 contain a patch for the issue. This is the same defect class as CVE-2023-51698 (CBT `--checkpoint-action` injection in `comics-document.c`, fixed in 1.6.2) but in a different code path (`shell/ev-application.c`) that the original patch did not touch.

Announced 10 Jun 2026Group revision 1

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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46529

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46529

atril

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Affected versions: 1.26.0-2
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1.26.0-2+deb12u1
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1.26.0-2+deb12u2
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1.26.0-2+deb12u3
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Fixed versions: 1.26.0-2+deb12u4
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

atril

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Affected versions: 1.26.2-4
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Fixed versions: 1.26.2-4+deb13u1
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

atril

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Affected versions: 1.26.2-4
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1.26.2-5
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1.28.2-1
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Fixed versions: 1.28.4-1
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

evince

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Affected versions: 43.1-2
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Fixed versions: 43.1-2+deb12u1
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

evince

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Affected versions: 48.1-3
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Fixed versions: 48.1-3+deb13u1
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

evince-gtk3

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Affected versions: 48.1+dfsg-1
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48.1+dfsg-2
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Fixed versions: 48.4+dfsg-1
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

papers

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Affected versions: 48.3-1
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48.5-1
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49.0-1
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49.0-2
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49.0-3
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49.1-1
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49.2-1
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49.2-2
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49.2-3
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49.3-1
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49.3-2
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49.3-3
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Fixed versions: Not stated in this record
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papers

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Affected versions: 48.3-1
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48.5-1
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49.0-1
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49.0-2
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49.0-3
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49.1-1
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49.2-1
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49.2-2
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49.2-3
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49.3-1
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49.3-2
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Fixed versions: 49.3-3
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Prerequisites: Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Publisher severity

No explicit severity was provided.

Event: #56639 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:45:22 GMT
Publisher date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:17:28 GMT

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Revision history

25 Oct 2026DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46529 · Revision 1Source updated