Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an "unscaled->face == NULL" assertion failure for _cairo_ft_unscaled_font_fini in cairo-ft-font.c.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1172 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler v25.04.0. The heap memory containing PDF stream objects is     not cleared upon program exit, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive PDF content via a memory dump.
    (CVE-2025-50422)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of cairo installed on the remote host is prior to 1.15.12-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2989 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler v25.04.0. The heap memory containing PDF stream objects is     not cleared upon program exit, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive PDF content via a memory dump.
    (CVE-2025-50422)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an unscaled->face == NULL assertion     failure for _cairo_ft_unscaled_font_fini in cairo-ft-font.c. (CVE-2025-50422)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
261748	Amazon Linux 2023 : cairo, cairo-devel, cairo-gobject (ALAS2023-2025-1172)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
261338	Amazon Linux 2 : cairo, --advisory ALAS2-2025-2989 (ALAS-2025-2989)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
253301	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-50422	Nessus	Misc.	low

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