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Fedora 42 evince Significant Command Injection Resolution CVE-2026-46529

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch addressing command injection CVE-2026-46529 for evince on Fedora 42, enhancing system security.
Fix command injection CVE-2026-46529

Summary

Evince is simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print

Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS) and Encapsulated PostScript

(EPS) files. When supported by the document format, evince allows searching

for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation,

table-of-contents bookmarks and editing of forms.

Support for other document formats such as DVI and DJVU can be added by

installing additional backends.

Update Information:

Fix command injection CVE-2026-46529

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important command injection evince cve-2026-46529

Change Log

* Tue May 19 2026 Michael Catanzaro - 48.1-2 - Add patch for CVE-2025-53367

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-49dc95b509 2026-05-24 01:10:40.847670+00:00 Name : evince Product : Fedora 42 Version : 48.1 Release : 2.fc42 URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince Summary : Document viewer Description : Evince is simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS) and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. When supported by the document format, evince allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, table-of-contents bookmarks and editing of forms. Support for other document formats such as DVI and DJVU can be added by installing additional backends.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-49dc95b509' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: evince
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 48.1
Release: 2.fc42
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
Summary: Document viewer

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important command injection evince cve-2026-46529

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