CVE-2004-1125

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Buffer overflow in the Gfx::doImage function in Gfx.cc for xpdf 3.00, and other products that share code such as tetex-bin and kpdf in KDE 3.2.x to 3.2.3 and 3.3.x to 3.3.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that causes the boundaries of a maskColors array to be exceeded.

Affected products

Easy Software Products Cups: 1.1.20
Kde: 3.2.3, 3.3.2
Xpdf: 3.0

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000921
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-December/030241.html
http://marc.info/?t=110378596500001&r=1&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/17277
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012646
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-13.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-17.xml
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=172&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041223-1.txt

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