CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-38334

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Sep 15, 2022 | Modified: Jan 31, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

XPDF v4.04 and earlier was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the function Catalog::countPageTree() at Catalog.cc.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xpdf Xpdfreader * 4.04 (including)
Ipe Ubuntu bionic *
Ipe Ubuntu kinetic *
Ipe Ubuntu lunar *
Ipe Ubuntu mantic *
Ipe Ubuntu trusty *
Ipe Ubuntu xenial *
Xpdf Ubuntu trusty *
Xpdf Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References