CVE-2005-3193

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

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPXStream::readCodestream function in the JPX stream parsing code (JPXStream.c) for xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) Poppler, (2) teTeX, (3) KDE kpdf, (4) CUPS, and (5) libextractor allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with large size values that cause insufficient memory to be allocated.

Affected products

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

References

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/17912
http://secunia.com/advisories/17916
http://secunia.com/advisories/17920

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