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Ubuntu 25.10: poppler Critical DoS Risk CVE-2025-52885 USN-7858-1

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Poppler update addresses critical crash risk with specially crafted PDFs. Upgrade to safeguard affected Ubuntu releases.
poppler could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

poppler could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted 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 crash.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS Ubuntu poppler crash

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 25.10
  libpoppler147                   25.03.0-10ubuntu0.1
  poppler-utils                   25.03.0-10ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 25.04
  libpoppler147                   25.03.0-3ubuntu1.4
  poppler-utils                   25.03.0-3ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  libpoppler134                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.8
  poppler-utils                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.8

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  libpoppler118                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.12
  poppler-utils                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.12

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  libpoppler97                    0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  poppler-utils                   0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7858-1

CVE-2025-52885

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7858-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS Ubuntu poppler crash

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/24.02.0-1ubuntu9.8
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/22.02.0-2ubuntu0.12

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