Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7687-1)

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USN-7687-1 poppler vulnerabilities

Jieyong Ma discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2022-27337 Kevin Backhouse discovere...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54869

FPDI is a collection of PHP classes that facilitate reading pages from existing PDF documents and using them as templates in FPDF. In versions 2.6.2 and below, any application that uses FPDI to process user-supplied PDF files is at risk, causing a Denial of Service DoS vulnerability. An attacker...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-54869

FPDI is a collection of PHP classes that facilitate reading pages from existing PDF documents and using them as templates in FPDF. In versions 2.6.2 and below, any application that uses FPDI to process user-supplied PDF files is at risk, causing a Denial of Service DoS vulnerability. An attacker...

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the PdfType::resolve which evaluates indirect and direct object references until a final value is reached. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion and crash the server by uploadin...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS via the pdfjs-1.4.20 component under public/plugins/. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the user's browser by injecting malicious scripts into PDF files rendered by the...

CVE-2025-2091

An open redirection vulnerability in M-Files mobile applications for Android and iOS prior to version 25.6.0 allows attackers to use maliciously crafted PDF files to trick other users into making requests to untrusted URLs...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5986

A crafted HTML email using mailbox:/// links can trigger automatic, unsolicited downloads of .pdf files to the user's desktop or home directory without prompting, even if auto-saving is disabled. This behavior can be abused to fill the disk with garbage data e.g. using /dev/urandom on Linux or to...

CVE-2023-45673

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. A remote code execution RCE vulnerability in affected versions allows clicking on a link in a PDF in an untrusted note to execute arbitrary shell commands. Clicking links in PDFs allows for arbitrary code execution because Joplin...

CVE-2023-24808

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions prior to 1.1.0 a denial of service DOS vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. The pdf which causes this crash found in testing is about 28...

CVE-2022-40431

The d8s-pdfs for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-networking package. The affected version is 0.1.0...

CVE-2022-40812

The d8s-pdfs for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-file-system package. The affected version is 0.1.0...

CVE-2017-1000424

Github Electron version 1.6.4 - 1.6.11 and 1.7.0 - 1.7.5 is vulnerable to a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control...

USN-7426-1 poppler vulnerabilities

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when opening certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

Fake CAPTCHA PDFs Spread Lumma Stealer via Webflow, GoDaddy, and Other Domains

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a widespread phishing campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA images shared via PDF documents hosted on Webflow's content delivery network CDN to deliver the Lumma stealer malware. Netskope Threat Labs said it discovered 260 unique domains hosting 5,000 phishing P...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

An attacker could, through a specially crafted multipart response, execute arbitrary JavaScript under the resource://pdf.js origin. This would allow them to access PDF content from other origins. This access is limited to “same site” documents due to the Site Isolation feature on desktop clients,...

CVE-2024-34342

react-pdf displays PDFs in React apps. If PDF.js is used to load a malicious PDF, and PDF.js is configured with isEvalSupported set to true which is the default value, unrestricted attacker-controlled JavaScript will be executed in the context of the hosting domain. This vulnerability is fixed in...

WhatsApp says Paragon is spying on specific users

WhatsApp has accused the professional spyware company Paragon of spying on a select group of users. WhatsApp, the Meta-owned, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, said it has reliable information that nearly 100 journalists and other “members of civil society” were targets of a spyware campai...

Lazarus Group Targets macOS with RustyAttr Trojan in Fake Job PDFs

Group-IB has uncovered Lazarus group’s stealthy new trojan and technique of hiding malicious code in extended attributes on…...

Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

Cisco Talos has observed an unknown threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. The decoy email and fake PDF filenames are designed to impersonate a company's legal department, attempting to lure the victim into downloading and...