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SUSE: poppler Important Security Update CVE-2025-52885 2025:21132-1

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE's important update for poppler addresses CVE-2025-52885, resolving critical buffer overflow risks for users.
* bsc#1251940 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-52885

Summary

## 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 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 16.0 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-42=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-42=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * poppler-tools-debuginfo-25.04.0-160000.3.1 * libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo-25.04.0-160000.3.1 * typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18-25.04.0-160000.3.1 * libpoppler-qt6-3-25.04.0-160000.3.1

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References

* bsc#1251940

Cross-

* CVE-2025-52885

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-52885 ( SUSE ): 7.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-52885 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2025-52885 ( NVD ): 6.1

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

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

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:21132-1
Release Date: 2025-11-20T13:33:03Z
Rating: important

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