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openSUSE: Poppler Important Denial of Service Issue 2025:3900-1

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This crucial security advisory for openSUSE addresses two significant flaws in the Poppler application, urging updates.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities 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 allows for stack

exhaustion and denial of service (bsc#1250908).

* CVE-2025-52885: Fixed raw pointers can lead to dangling pointers when the

vector is resized (bsc#1251940).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important poppler OpenSUSE stack exhaustion

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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3900=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-3900=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3900=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3900=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-3900=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-cpp0-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler126-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* poppler-qt5-debugsource-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* poppler-qt6-debugsource-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-qt6-3-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-qt5-1-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-qt6-devel-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-qt5-devel-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-glib8-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* poppler-tools-debuginfo-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-qt5-1-debuginfo-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-glib-devel-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler126-debuginfo-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-devel-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* poppler-debugsource-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-qt6-3-debuginfo-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* poppler-tools-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo-23.01.0-150500.3.26.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1250908

* bsc#1251940

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43718.html

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

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250908

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251940

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3900-1
Release Date: 2025-10-31T14:56:41Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important poppler OpenSUSE stack exhaustion

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