CVE-2005-3191

Medium

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2) DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code (Stream.cc) in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (a) Poppler, (b) teTeX, (c) KDE kpdf, (d) pdftohtml, (e) KOffice KWord, (f) CUPS, and (g) libextractor allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with an out-of-range number of components (numComps), which is used as an array index.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.1
Exploit probability—
ProductXpdf
PublishedDec 7, 2005
First seenDec 7, 2005

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xpdf xpdf0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 1.0, 1.0a, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0_pl2, 3.0_pl3—

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