Use After Free Affecting poppler-utils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-POPPLERUTILS-13539411
  • published13 Oct 2025
  • disclosed10 Oct 2025

Introduced: 10 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-52885  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 poppler-utils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-utils package and not the poppler-utils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. A use-after-free (write) vulnerability has been detected in versions Poppler prior to 25.10.0 within the StructTreeRoot class. The issue arises from the use of raw pointers to elements of a std::vector, which can lead to dangling pointers when the vector is resized. The vulnerability stems from the way that refToParentMap stores references to std::vector elements using raw pointers. These pointers may become invalid when the vector is resized. This vulnerability is a common security problem involving the use of raw pointers to std::vectors. Internally, std::vector stores its elements in a dynamically allocated array. When the array reaches its capacity and a new element is added, the vector reallocates a larger block of memory and moves all the existing elements to the new location. At this point if any pointers to elements are stored before a resize occurs, they become dangling pointers once the reallocation happens. Version 25.10.0 contains a patch for the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1