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Fedora 43 qpdfview Critical Denial of Service 2026-c06fd97a53

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical advisory regarding qpdfview update for Fedora 43 addressing denial of service risk from mupdf security flaw.
mupdf 1.27.1 and dependencies

Summary

qpdfview is a tabbed PDF viewer.

It uses the Poppler library for rendering and CUPS for printing.

It provides a clear and simple graphical user interface using the Qt framework.

Update Information:

mupdf 1.27.1 and dependencies

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora critical mupdf qpdfview

Change Log

* Tue Feb 10 2026 Michael J Gruber - 0.5.0-25 - Rebuild (mupdf * Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.5.0-24 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Nov 5 2025 Yaakov Selkowitz - 0.5.0-23 - Build as a single package

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2437972 - CVE-2026-25556 mupdf: MuPDF: Denial of Service via crafted input during barcode decoding [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437972

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-c06fd97a53' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: qpdfview
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 0.5.0
Release: 25.fc43
URL: https://launchpad.net/qpdfview
Summary: Tabbed PDF Viewer

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora critical mupdf qpdfview

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