Use After Free Affecting poppler package, versions [,25.06.0)
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- published4 Jul 2025
- disclosed2 Jul 2025
- creditKevin Backhouse
Introduced: 2 Jul 2025
NewCVE-2025-52886 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade poppler to version 25.06.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via std::atomic_int in reference counting process. An attacker can execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by overflowing the reference count and triggering access to memory after it has been freed.