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CVE-2022-27135

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

xpdf 4.03 has heap buffer overflow in the function readXRefTable located in XRef.cc. An attacker can exploit this bug to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or other unspecified effects by sending a crafted PDF file to the pdftoppm binary.

Affected products

• Xpdf: 4.03

References

• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42232
• https://github.com/verf1sh/Poc/blob/master/pic_ppm.png
• https://github.com/verf1sh/Poc/blob/master/poc_ppm
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42232
• https://github.com/verf1sh/Poc/blob/master/pic_ppm.png
• https://github.com/verf1sh/Poc/blob/master/poc_ppm

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