A vulnerability was identified in Freedesktop Poppler up to 26.08.0. Affected is the function SplashClip::clipToPath of the file splash/SplashClip.cc. Such manipulation leads to integer overflow. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Upgrading to version 26.09.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 323c91036d99926a8b90dc14329f7b40aece22f8. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A vulnerability was identified in Freedesktop Poppler up to 26.08.0. Affected is the function
    SplashClip::clipToPath of the file splash/SplashClip.cc. Such manipulation leads to integer overflow. The
    attack can only be performed from a local environment. The exploit is publicly available and might be
    used. Upgrading to version 26.09.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is
    323c91036d99926a8b90dc14329f7b40aece22f8. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
    (CVE-2026-102621)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8894-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in FoFiTrueType::cvtSfnts. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2026-102620)

    It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in SplashClip::clipToPath. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2026-102621)

    It was discovered that Poppler had a null pointer dereference in JBIG2Stream. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-93312)

    It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in JBIG2Stream::readCodeTableSeg. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2026-93313)

    It was discovered that Poppler had an integer overflow in FoFiTrueType::mapCodeToGID. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2026-93314)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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.

  - A vulnerability was identified in Freedesktop Poppler up to 26.08.0. Affected is the function     SplashClip::clipToPath of the file splash/SplashClip.cc. Such manipulation leads to integer overflow. The     attack can only be performed from a local environment. The exploit is publicly available and might be     used. Upgrading to version 26.09.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is     323c91036d99926a8b90dc14329f7b40aece22f8. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
    (CVE-2026-102621)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
474841	Echo: poppler: security update to 25.03.0-5+deb13u4+e3	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
474841	Echo: poppler: security update to 25.03.0-5+deb13u4+e3	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
364278	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-8894-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
351292	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-102621	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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