USN-7687-1

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    USN-7687-1

    Published: 6 Aug 2025Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: poppler vulnerabilities

    Details: Jieyong Ma discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27337) 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. (CVE-2025-52886)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7687-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-27337, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-52886

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/poppler?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm7

    Affected versions

    0.33.0-0ubuntu3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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