| Risk | Medium |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2025-50420 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-835 |
| Exploitation vector | Local |
| Public exploit | Public exploit code for vulnerability #1 is available. |
| Vulnerable software |
openEuler Operating systems & Components / Operating system poppler-help Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-glib-doc Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-utils Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-qt6-devel Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-qt6 Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-qt5-devel Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-qt5 Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-glib-devel Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-glib Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-devel Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-debugsource Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-cpp-devel Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler-cpp Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component poppler Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component |
| Vendor | openEuler |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU114081
Risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-50420
CWE-ID:
CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Exploit availability: Yes
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in the pdfseparate utility when handling PDF files. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted PDF file to the application, consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
MitigationInstall updates from vendor's repository.
Vulnerable software versionsopenEuler: 24.03 LTS
poppler-help: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-glib-doc: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-utils: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-qt6-devel: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-qt6: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-qt5-devel: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-qt5: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-glib-devel: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-glib: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-devel: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-debugsource: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-debuginfo: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-cpp-devel: before 23.12.0-10
poppler-cpp: before 23.12.0-10
poppler: before 23.12.0-10
CPE2.3https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2025-2034
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability. However, proof of concept for this vulnerability is available.