Linuxsecurity Critical Vulnerability in Pdfminer.six Affects Fedora Python Users
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A critical vulnerability has been identified in the Pdfminer.six tool, a community-maintained fork of PDFMiner, used for extracting information from PDF documents. This vulnerability affects users of Fedora 41 and Fedora 42 who utilize Python for text extraction and analysis from PDFs. The tool's modular design allows for easy replacement of components, which may be leveraged in the exploitation of this vulnerability.
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Critical Vulnerabilities in pdfminer Allow Code Execution on Ubuntu Systems Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-64512 and CVE-2025-70559) in pdfminer, a PDF parser used in Ubuntu systems, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by opening specially crafted PDF files. The vulnerabilities were discovered in the parsing process of pdfminer, which failed to handle maliciously crafted files… 
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