CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-38928

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 21, 2022 | Modified: Sep 22, 2022

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38928
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

XPDF 4.04 is vulnerable to Null Pointer Dereference in FoFiType1C.cc:2393.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Xpdf	Xpdfreader	4.04 (including)	4.04 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3\u0026t=42325\u0026sid=7b08ba9a518a99ce3c5ff40e53fc6421

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