CVE-2025-11896
Publication date 16 October 2025
Last updated 29 October 2025
Ubuntu 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.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| xpdf | 25.10 questing |
Needs evaluation
|
| 25.04 plucky |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
|
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| ipe | 25.10 questing |
Needs evaluation
|
| 25.04 plucky |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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| 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.