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CVE-2023-26930

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2023-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”

Affected products

• Xpdf: 4.04

References

• https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
• https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted
• https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
• https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted

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