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CVE-2026-102621

poppler: poppler: Denial of Service via integer overflow in SplashClip

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 30, 2026

Updated · October 2, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in poppler. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the SplashClip rendering component when handling path clipping operations. A local attacker could exploit this flaw by providing specially crafted input, causing the application to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Statement

Red Hat rates this flaw as Low impact because exploitation requires a user to open a specially crafted PDF file, and the result is limited to crashing the rendering process with no data exposure or code execution.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

Do not open untrusted PDF files with applications that use the poppler library for rendering.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound