CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-41843

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 30, 2022 | Modified: Oct 03, 2022
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in convertToType0 in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-38928.

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)
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

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