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openSUSE: Fix for CVE-2025-52885 Dangling Pointer Issue in Poppler

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An openSUSE update for poppler addresses an important vulnerability related to dangling pointers. Immediate action recommended.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2025-52885: Fixed raw pointers leading to dangling pointers when the vector is resized (bsc#1251940)

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-42=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important poppler OpenSUSE dangling pointers

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libpoppler-cpp2-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-devel-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-glib-devel-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-glib8-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-qt5-1-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-qt5-devel-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-qt6-3-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler-qt6-devel-25.04.0-160000.3.1

libpoppler148-25.04.0-160000.3.1

poppler-tools-25.04.0-160000.3.1

typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18-25.04.0-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1251940

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52885.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025-20068-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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security advisory security update important poppler OpenSUSE dangling pointers

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