USN-7274-1: Atril vulnerabilities

18 February 2025

Atril could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • atril - Official Document Viewer of the MATE Desktop Environment

Details

It was discovered that Atril incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-1010006)

Andy Nguyen discovered that Atril incorrectly handled certain images. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-11459)

Febin Mon Saji discovered that Atril incorrectly handled certain
compressed files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service or to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-51698)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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