CVE-2022-30524: High severity xpdf vulnerability
Published May 9, 2022
·Updated
There is an invalid memory access in the TextLine class in TextOutputDev.cc in Xpdf 4.0.4 because the text extractor mishandles characters at large y coordinates. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftotext binary, which allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Affected Software
1 affected component
Xpdfreader Xpdf=4.0.4
Event History
May 9, 2022
CVE Published
via MITRE·06:00 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·06:00 PM
Description