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CVE-2005-2097

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-08-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

xpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the "loca" table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a "broken" loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.

Affected products

• KDE Kpdf: all versions
• Xpdf: 3.0, 3.0_pl2, 3.0_pl3

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/17277
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18398
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18407
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21339
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25729
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102972-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-780
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1136
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-936
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:138
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html

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