CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-26930
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”
Affected configurations
• xpdfreader xpdf 4.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted Exploit
- https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted Exploit