Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-6808-1

USN-6808-1: Atril vulnerability

Publication date

5 June 2024

Overview

Atril could be made to create arbitrary files when opening a specially crafted EPUB file.

Releases

23.10 22.04 LTS 20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS

Packages

atril - Official Document Viewer of the MATE Desktop Environment

Details

It was discovered that Atril was vulnerable to a path traversal attack.
An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to create arbitrary
files on the host filesystem with user privileges.

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
23.10 mantic	atril – 1.26.0-2ubuntu0.1
	atril-common – 1.26.0-2ubuntu0.1
	libatrildocument3 – 1.26.0-2ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy	atril – 1.26.0-1ubuntu1.1
	atril-common – 1.26.0-1ubuntu1.1
	libatrildocument3 – 1.26.0-1ubuntu1.1
20.04 focal	atril – 1.24.0-1ubuntu0.1
	atril-common – 1.24.0-1ubuntu0.1
	libatrildocument3 – 1.24.0-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic	atril – 1.20.1-2ubuntu2+esm1
	atril-common – 1.20.1-2ubuntu2+esm1
	libatrildocument3 – 1.20.1-2ubuntu2+esm1
16.04 xenial	atril – 1.12.2-1ubuntu0.3+esm1
	atril-common – 1.12.2-1ubuntu0.3+esm1
	libatrildocument3 – 1.12.2-1ubuntu0.3+esm1

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References

CVE-2023-52076

CVE-2023-52076