Fedora 44 Evince Significant Command Injection Resolution CVE-2026-46529
fedora
May 21, 2026
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 Covered
Change Log
* Tue May 19 2026 Michael Catanzaro
References
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2026-aea94fcc1c
2026-05-21 00:54:04.884742+00:00
Name : evince
Product : Fedora 44
Version : 48.1
Release : 5.fc44
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-aea94fcc1c' 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 44
Version: 48.1
Release: 5.fc44
Summary: Document viewer
Topics Covered
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