CVE-2022-37050: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 22.07.0 only

Published 2023-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.