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CVE-2006-1244

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in certain versions of xpdf after 3.00, as used in various products including (a) pdfkit.framework, (b) gpdf, (c) pdftohtml, and (d) libextractor, has unknown impact and user-assisted attack vectors, possibly involving errors in (1) gmem.c, (2) SplashXPathScanner.cc, (3) JBIG2Stream.cc, (4) JPXStream.cc, and/or (5) Stream.cc. NOTE: this description is based on Debian advisory DSA 979, which is based on changes that were made after other vulnerabilities such as CVE-2006-0301 and CVE-2005-3624 through CVE-2005-3628 were fixed. Some of these newer fixes appear to be security-relevant, although it is not clear if they fix specific issues or are defensive in nature.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1
• GNOME Gpdf: 2.8.2
• Libextractor: 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.3.9, 0.3.11, 0.4 (+3)
• Xpdf: 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 1.0, 1.0a (+10)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18948
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19021
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19065
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19091
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19164
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19364
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19644
• http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge3.diff.gz
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1019
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-979
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-982
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-983

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