USN-7858-1: poppler vulnerability

USN-7858-1: poppler vulnerability
Publication date: 5 November 2025
Overview: poppler could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Packages
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.

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

25.10 questing

• libpoppler147 – 25.03.0-10ubuntu0.1
• poppler-utils – 25.03.0-10ubuntu0.1

25.04 plucky

• libpoppler147 – 25.03.0-3ubuntu1.4
• poppler-utils – 25.03.0-3ubuntu1.4

24.04 LTS noble

• libpoppler134 – 24.02.0-1ubuntu9.8
• poppler-utils – 24.02.0-1ubuntu9.8

22.04 LTS jammy

• libpoppler118 – 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.12
• poppler-utils – 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.12

20.04 LTS focal

• libpoppler97 – 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm3
• poppler-utils – 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm3