Bug 2400893 (CVE-2025-43718)

Summary: CVE-2025-43718 poppler: Poppler stack overflow
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A stack overflow flaw has been discovered in Poppler. This stack overflow which leads to a SIGSEGV crash occurs via deeply nested structures within the metadata of a PDF document. This occurs in Dict::lookup, Catalog::getMetadata, and associated functions in PDFDoc, with deep recursion in the regex executor (std::__detail::_Executor).
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Bug Depends On: 2401098, 2401095, 2401096, 2401097    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 20:02:53 UTC
Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This occurs in Dict::lookup, Catalog::getMetadata, and associated functions in PDFDoc, with deep recursion in the regex executor (std::__detail::_Executor).