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openSUSE 16 Security Update : evince (openSUSE-SU-2026:20850-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 318174

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20850-1 advisory.

 Changes in evince:

 - Update to version 48.2 (bsc#1265880 CVE-2026-46529):
 - shell: Quote strings in arguments used when calling ev_spawn

 - Update to version 48.1+6:
 - build: bump DjVuLibre version required
 - libview: Fix crash in the accessible code when page cache text is NULL
 - po: Fix xml element in Hindi translation
 - Updated translations.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1265880

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46529

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 318174

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20850-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/2/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46529

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Threat Score: 7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-lang, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-evincedocument-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-tiffdocument, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libevview3-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-comicsdocument, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-pdfdocument, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-xpsdocument, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-evinceview-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libevdocument3-4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-dvidocument, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-psdocument, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:evince-plugin-djvudocument

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46529