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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: poppler Critical Denial of Service Issue USN-7675-1

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu has released a security notice about a critical poppler vulnerability. This could let attackers create denial of service errors through crafted files, affecting user access
poppler could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

poppler could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially

crafted file.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

Kevin Backhouse discovered that poppler incorrectly handled documents with

a large number of annotations. If a user or automated system were tricked

into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could use

this issue to cause poppler to consume resources, leading to a denial of

service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu poppler resource consumption

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 25.04
  libpoppler147                   25.03.0-3ubuntu1.1
  poppler-utils                   25.03.0-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  libpoppler134                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.5
  poppler-utils                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.5

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  libpoppler118                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.9
  poppler-utils                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.9

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7675-1

CVE-2025-52886

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7675-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu poppler resource consumption

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/25.03.0-3ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/24.02.0-1ubuntu9.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/22.02.0-2ubuntu0.9

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