JLSEC-2026-81 — Vulnetix

JLSEC-2026-81 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

9.300000190734863

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Julia	Poppler_jll	0, 0

Timeline

Apr 13, 2026 CVE Published
Apr 13, 2026 CVE Updated
May 1, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/11 url
https://github.com/jeffssh/CVE-2021-30860 url
https://github.com/zmanion/Vulnerabilities/blob/main/CVE-2022-38171.md url
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1261/diffs?commit_id=27354e9d9696ee2bc063910a6c9a6b27c5184a52 url
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html url
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BGY72LBJMFAKQWC2XH4MRPIGPQLXTFL6/ url
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E5Z2677EQUWVHJLGSH5DQX53EK6MY2M2/ url
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J546EJUKUOPWA3JSLP7DYNBAU3YGNCCW/ url
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NLKN3HJKZSGEEKOF57DM7Q3IB74HP5VW/ url
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQAO6O2XHPQHNW2MWOCJJ4C3YWS2VV4K/ url
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html url
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-21 url
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38171 url
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5224 url

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