USN-8894-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

7 October 2026

Overview

poppler could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.


Packages

Details

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
FoFiTrueType::cvtSfnts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code.
(CVE-2026-102620)

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
SplashClip::clipToPath. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code.
(CVE-2026-102621)

It was discovered that Poppler had a null pointer dereference in
JBIG2Stream. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2026-93312)

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
JBIG2Stream::readCodeTableSeg. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause...

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
FoFiTrueType::cvtSfnts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code.
(CVE-2026-102620)

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
SplashClip::clipToPath. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code.
(CVE-2026-102621)

It was discovered that Poppler had a null pointer dereference in
JBIG2Stream. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2026-93312)

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
JBIG2Stream::readCodeTableSeg. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service,
or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2026-93313)

It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in
FoFiTrueType::mapCodeToGID. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service,
or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2026-93314)


Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
26.04 LTS resolute libpoppler156 –  26.01.0-2ubuntu0.2
24.04 LTS noble libpoppler134 –  24.02.0-1ubuntu9.10
22.04 LTS jammy libpoppler118 –  22.02.0-2ubuntu0.14

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