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CVE-2022-37051

• 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-617

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• poppler: 22.07.0

References

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/4631115647c1e4f0482ffe0491c2f38d2231337b
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1276
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/4631115647c1e4f0482ffe0491c2f38d2231337b
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1276
• 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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