1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4024-1

USN-4024-1: Evince update

Publication date

19 June 2019

Overview

Use more restrictive AppArmor policy for Evince binaries.

Releases

Packages

Details

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the AppArmor profile for the
Evince thumbnailer to reduce access to the system and adjusts the AppArmor
profile for Evince and Evince previewer to limit access to the DBus system
bus. Additionally adjust the evince abstraction to disallow writes on
parent directories of sensitive files.

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the AppArmor profile for the
Evince thumbnailer to reduce access to the system and adjusts the AppArmor
profile for Evince and Evince previewer to limit access to the DBus system
bus. Additionally adjust the evince abstraction to disallow writes on
parent directories of sensitive files.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 bionic evince-common –  3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2
16.04 xenial evince-common –  3.18.2-1ubuntu4.5

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