CVE-2005-3627

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stream.cc in Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to modify memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DCTDecode stream with (1) a large "number of components" value that is not checked by DCTStream::readBaselineSOF or DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF, (2) a large "Huffman table index" value that is not checked by DCTStream::readHuffmanTables, and (3) certain uses of the scanInfo.numComps value by DCTStream::readScanInfo.

Affected products

Xpdf: all versions

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0177.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-003.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/18147
http://secunia.com/advisories/18303
http://secunia.com/advisories/18312
http://secunia.com/advisories/18313
http://secunia.com/advisories/18329

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