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SUSE Issues Important Denial of Service Advisory for Poppler CVE-2025-50420

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Essential security patch issued for Poppler to mitigate denial of service vulnerability in openSUSE environments.
* bsc#1247590 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-50420

Summary

## This update for poppler fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-50420: Fixed Denial of Service in pdfseparate utility (bsc#1247590) ## 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-2788=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-2788=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libpoppler60-0.43.0-16.64.1 * poppler-tools-0.43.0-16.64.1 * libpoppler-devel-0.43.0-16.64.1

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References

* bsc#1247590

Cross-

* CVE-2025-50420

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-50420 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-50420 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-50420.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247590

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02788-1
Release Date: 2025-08-13T12:52:15Z
Rating: important

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