| Name | CVE-2025-43718 |
| Description | Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This occurs in Dict::lookup, Catalog::getMetadata, and associated functions in PDFDoc, with deep recursion in the regex executor (std::__detail::_Executor). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1117046 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| poppler (PTS) | bullseye | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u2 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm | 22.12.0-2+deb12u1 | vulnerable | |
| trixie | 25.03.0-5 | vulnerable | |
| forky | 25.03.0-9 | vulnerable | |
| sid | 25.03.0-10 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| poppler | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 1117046 |
Fixed by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/f54b815672117c250420787c8c006de98e8c7408 (poppler-25.04.0)