Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting libpoppler89 package, versions <0.79.0-150200.3.46.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-LIBPOPPLER89-13830726
  • published4 Nov 2025
  • disclosed2 Nov 2025

Introduced: 2 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-43718  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 libpoppler89 to version 0.79.0-150200.3.46.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpoppler89 package and not the libpoppler89 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1