vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-52886): poppler vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 2, 2025 | Jul 28, 2025 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 2, 2025
Added
Jul 28, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
Poppler is a PDF rendering library. Versions prior to 25.06.0 use `std::atomic_int` for reference counting. Because `std::atomic_int` is only 32 bits, it is possible to overflow the reference count and trigger a use-after-free. Version 25.06.0 patches the issue.
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpoppler58ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpoppler73ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpoppler97ubuntu-pro-upgrade-poppler-utilsubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler118ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler134ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler147ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils
References
- CVE-2025-52886
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-52886
- CWE-416
- EUVD-EUVD-2025-19742
- UBUNTU-USN-7675-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7687-1
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-19742
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1828
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2025-054_poppler/
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7675-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52886
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