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Debian dla-4374 : pdfminer-data - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 275733

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-4374 advisory.

 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4374-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Chris Lamb November 18, 2025 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Package : pdfminer Version : 20200726-1+deb11u1 CVE ID : CVE-2025-64512 Debian Bug : 1120642

 It was discovered that there was a potential arbitrary code execution in pdfminer, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. A malicious, zipped pickle file could have contained code that might have been executed when the PDF was processed.

 For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version 20200726-1+deb11u1.

 We recommend that you upgrade your pdfminer packages.

 For the detailed security status of pdfminer please refer to its security tracker page at:
 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/pdfminer

 Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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

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

Solution

Upgrade the pdfminer-data packages.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/pdfminer

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-64512

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/pdfminer

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 275733

File Name: debian_DLA-4374.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2025

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-64512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-pdfminer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdfminer-data

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-64512