CVE-2025-64512 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2025-64512: 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 pd

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2025-64512 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

pdfminer→ fixed in20200726-1+deb11u1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y pdfminer
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

pdfminer→ fixed in20221105+dfsg-1.1~deb12u1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y pdfminer
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

pdfminer→ fixed in20221105+dfsg-1.1~deb13u1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y pdfminer
```

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