Critical DoS Vulnerability in poppler Affects Multiple Ubuntu Releases

Critical DoS Vulnerability in poppler Affects Multiple Ubuntu Releases

First seen 6 Nov 2025, 17:37 UTC UbuntuLinuxsecurity 53.1

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A critical denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2025-52885) has been identified in the poppler PDF rendering library, affecting several Ubuntu releases including 25.10, 25.04, 24.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 20.04 LTS. The vulnerability allows an attacker to crash the application by opening a specially crafted PDF file.