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Medium USN-7708-1 1 CVE

poppler vulnerability

Published Aug 20, 2025 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS poppler 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.10
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS poppler 24.02.0-1ubuntu9.6
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS poppler 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm8
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS poppler 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm8
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS poppler 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2025-50420 Public exploit

    An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via…

    poppler poppler Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-50420