openSUSE Leap 15.4: Poppler Moderate CVE-2025-43718 Recursion Patch
opensuse
October 31, 2025
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.
Description
This update for poppler fixes the following issues:
* CVE-2025-43718: fixed uncontrolled recursion in the regex-based metadata
parser when processing specially crafted PDF files (bsc#1250908)
Topics Covered
Patch
## Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE 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 15.4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3898=1
Package List
* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
* typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-qt5-1-debuginfo-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler117-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-glib8-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* poppler-tools-debuginfo-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-qt5-1-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-devel-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* poppler-qt5-debugsource-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-glib-devel-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler117-debuginfo-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-qt6-3-debuginfo-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-qt6-devel-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-cpp0-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-qt6-3-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* poppler-tools-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* poppler-debugsource-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* poppler-qt6-debugsource-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* libpoppler-qt5-devel-22.01.0-150400.3.41.1
* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
*...
Read the Full AdvisoryReferences
* bsc#1250908
## References:
* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43718.html
* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250908
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3898-1
Release Date: 2025-10-31T14:55:55Z
Affected Products:
* openSUSE Leap 15.4
Topics Covered
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