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xpdf infinite loop DoS

Published Jan 9, 2007

Description

The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by (a) xpdf 3.0.1 patch 2, (b) kpdf in KDE before 3.5.5, (c) poppler before 0.5.4, and other products, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service (infinite loop), arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a (1) crafted catalog dictionary or (2) a crafted Pages attribute that references an invalid page tree node.

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Red Hat statement

Not Vulnerable. This flaw is the result of an infinite recursion flaw in xpdf, which cannot result in arbitrary code execution.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 9, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 8, 2007
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a