CVE-2025-2574

Publication date 20 March 2025

Last updated 26 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Out-of-bounds array write in Xpdf 4.05 and earlier, due to incorrect integer overflow checking in the PostScript function interpreter code.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ipe 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
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
xpdf 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
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.