CVE-2022-30524

Summary

CVECVE-2022-30524
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-09 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-18 16:44:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is an invalid memory access in the TextLine class in TextOutputDev.cc in Xpdf 4.0.4 because the text extractor mishandles characters at large y coordinates. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftotext binary, which allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xpdfreader Xpdf 4.0.4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Segmentation fault in xpdf-4.04/xpdf/TextOutputDev.cc:988 in TextLine::TextLine() - forum.xpdfreader.com MISC forum.xpdfreader.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 510777 Alpine Linux Security Update for xpdf
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