CVE-2005-3191 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-3191

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2)...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2) DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code (Stream.cc) in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (a) Poppler, (b) teTeX, (c) KDE kpdf, (d) pdftohtml, (e) KOffice KWord, (f) CUPS, and (g) libextractor allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with an out-of-range number of components (numComps), which is used as an array index.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xpdf
Vulnerable Versions:
0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 1.0, 1.0a, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0_pl2, 3.0_pl3

Timeline

Official Publish: December 7th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.