CVE-2022-37051

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: 4631115

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H