CVE-2025-11896

Publication date 16 October 2025

Last updated 10 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), a PDF object loop in a CMap, via the "UseCMap" entry, leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xpdf 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
ipe 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Notes

mdeslaur

In trusty to bionic, xpdf is built with poppler as the backend library, so most xpdf issues don't apply to it. In jammy and later, the xpdf package is actually xpopple, a fork that also builds against poppler.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v4.0

Base score 2.1 · Low

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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