Bug#1110463: poppler: CVE-2025-50420

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 25.03.0-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2025-50420[0]:
| An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0
| allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via supplying a
| crafted PDF file. This can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS).


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-50420
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-50420
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1613
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1849
[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/08d7894e4dd0e313c179e30f06ad8f546619b1b3

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore