NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting pymupdf package, versions [1.24.0,]
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- published26 Sept 2025
- disclosed23 Sept 2025
- credit3Ishayu
Introduced: 23 Sep 2025
NewCVE-2025-55780 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
PyMuPDF is an A high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the break_word_for_overflow_wrap() function when rendering a malformed EPUB document. An attacker can cause a crash by supplying a specially crafted EPUB file that triggers a null pointer dereference in the processing of FLOW_WORD nodes.