CVE-2005-3192

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as (1) Poppler, (2) teTeX, (3) KDE kpdf, and (4) pdftohtml, (5) KOffice KWord, (6) CUPS, and (7) libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps (number of components) field.

Affected products

Xpdf: 3.0.1

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://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-003.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/17897/

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