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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-64512

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Prior to version 20251107, pdfminer.six will execute arbitrary code from a malicious pickle file if provided with a malicious PDF file. The `CMapDB._load_data()` function in pdfminer.six uses `pickle.loads()` to deserialize pickle files. These pickle files are supposed to be part of the pdfminer.six distribution stored in the `cmap/` directory, but a malicious PDF can specify an alternative directory and filename as long as the filename ends in `.pickle.gz`. A malicious, zipped pickle file can then contain code which will automatically execute when the PDF is processed. Version 20251107 fixes the issue.

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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-64512

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Security context

Source reference: osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-64512

pdfminer

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
20110515+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/0/versions

20140328+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/0/versions

Fixed versions
20140328+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

pdfminer

Source reference: /affected/1/package/name

Affected versions
20140328+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/1/versions

Fixed versions
20140328+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1

Source reference: /affected/1/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

pdfminer

Source reference: /affected/2/package/name

Affected versions
20181108+dfsg-3

Source reference: /affected/2/versions

20191020+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/2/versions

20191020+dfsg-2

Source reference: /affected/2/versions

Fixed versions
20191020+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Source reference: /affected/2/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

pdfminer

Source reference: /affected/3/package/name

Affected versions
20200726-1

Source reference: /affected/3/versions

20201018+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/3/versions

20220319+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/3/versions

Fixed versions
20220319+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Source reference: /affected/3/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

pdfminer

Source reference: /affected/4/package/name

Affected versions
20221105+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/4/versions

Fixed versions
20221105+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Source reference: /affected/4/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

pdfminer

Source reference: /affected/5/package/name

Affected versions
20221105+dfsg-1

Source reference: /affected/5/versions

Fixed versions
Not stated in this record
Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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