PT-2023-25043 · Poppler+7 · Poppler+7

Published 2023-05-15 · Updated 2026-03-29 · CVE-2023-34872

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Poppler versions prior to 23.06.0

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

Recommendations For versions prior to 23.06.0, update to version 23.06.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of crafted PDF files until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2024-1256

ALT-PU-2024-1289

BDU:2025-11409

CVE-2023-34872

MGASA-2023-0348

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_4291-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_4363-1

ROSA-SA-2023-2303

SUSE-SU-2023:4291-1

SUSE-SU-2023:4363-1

SUSE-SU-2023_4291-1

USN-6273-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Astra Linux

Debian

Linuxmint

Poppler

Red Os

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 45

• 🔥 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1399 · Exploit
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/3XXL3L6RJOTLGCN7GLH2OLLNF4FJ4T7I · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6273-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34872 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34872 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34872 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XXL3L6RJOTLGCN7GLH2OLLNF4FJ4T7I · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6273-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W3H3GOWFE3C7543GMEN7LY4GWMWJ7D2G · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BELL-CVE-2023-34872 · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/591235c8b6c65a2eee88991b9ae73490fd9afdfe · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-34872 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2023-0348 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:4363-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-27337 · Vendor Advisory