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CVE-2022-37050

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• poppler: 22.07.0

References

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dcd5bd8238ea448addd102ff045badd0aca1b990
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dcd5bd8238ea448addd102ff045badd0aca1b990
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html

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