CVE-2005-3191

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Xpdf: 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 1.0, 1.0a (+9)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342289
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-868.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17897
http://secunia.com/advisories/17908
http://secunia.com/advisories/17912

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