CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2097

Published: Aug 16, 2005 | Modified: Oct 19, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

xpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the loca table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a broken loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kpdf Kde * *
Xpdf Xpdf 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl2 (including) 3.0_pl2 (including)
Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl3 (including) 3.0_pl3 (including)

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