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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-8894-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 364278

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8894-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 364278

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8894-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2026

Updated: 10/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-93314

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-poppler-0.18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-cpp0t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-cpp0v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-cpp3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib8t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt5-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt5-1t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt6-3t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler118, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler134, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler156, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:poppler-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-102620, CVE-2026-102621, CVE-2026-93312, CVE-2026-93313, CVE-2026-93314

USN: 8894-1