CVE-2023-34872

Publication date 1 August 2023

Last updated 10 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability in Outline.cc for Poppler prior to 23.06.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) (crash) via a crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	23.10 mantic	Fixed 22.12.0-2ubuntu2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 22.12.0-2ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

issue doesn't reproduce on focal, and code is different, marking as not-affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: 591235c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H