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CVE-2022-38238

• 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: yes
• Published: 2022-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

XPDF commit ffaf11c was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via DCTStream::lookChar() at /xpdf/Stream.cc.

Affected products

• Xpdf Project Xpdf: 3.04

References

• https://github.com/jhcloos/xpdf/issues/15
• https://github.com/jhcloos/xpdf/issues/15

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