Low severity2.9NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-43718
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).
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Affected products
26- Range: 24.06.1 to 25.04.0 (exclusive)
- osv-coords25 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/poppler&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/poppler-qt5&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/poppler-qt6&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt5&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt5&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt6&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt6&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP7
< 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1+ 24 more
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.01.0-150500.3.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.01.0-150500.3.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.01.0-150500.3.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.01.0-150500.3.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 24.03.0-150600.3.24.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
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