CVE-2022-24106

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In Xpdf prior to 4.04, the DCT (JPEG) decoder was incorrectly allowing the 'interleaved' flag to be changed after the first scan of the image, leading to an unknown integer-related vulnerability in Stream.cc.

Affected products

Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: before 4.04 — fixed in 4.04

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 4.04. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.xpdfreader.com/security-fixes.html
https://dl.xpdfreader.com/xpdf-4.04.tar.gz
http://www.xpdfreader.com/security-fixes.html
https://dl.xpdfreader.com/xpdf-4.04.tar.gz

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