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Ubuntu 25.04: poppler Critical Denial of Service USN-7708-1 CVE-2025-50420

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Discover the critical poppler issue impacting Ubuntu that may cause denial of service with specially crafted PDFs.
poppler could be made to denial of service if it received a specially crafted PDF file.

Summary

poppler could be made to denial of service if it received a

specially crafted PDF file.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu PDF poppler

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 25.04
  libpoppler147                   25.03.0-3ubuntu1.2
  poppler-utils                   25.03.0-3ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  libpoppler134                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.6
  poppler-utils                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.6

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  libpoppler118                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.10
  poppler-utils                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.10

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  libpoppler97                    0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  poppler-utils                   0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  libpoppler73                    0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm8
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  poppler-utils                   0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm8
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm8
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm8
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7708-1

  CVE-2025-50420

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7708-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu PDF poppler

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/25.03.0-3ubuntu1.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/24.02.0-1ubuntu9.6
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/22.02.0-2ubuntu0.10

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