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HIGH

security flaw

Published Dec 8, 2005

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as (1) Poppler, (2) teTeX, (3) KDE kpdf, and (4) pdftohtml, (5) KOffice KWord, (6) CUPS, and (7) libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps (number of components) field.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 8, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Oct 14, 2005
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Dec 6, 2005