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USN-8839-1: Atril vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Atril did not properly sanitize command-line arguments in PDF /GoToR actions. If a user opened a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-46529) 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)

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