PT-2023-20854 · Xpdf+1 · Xpdf+1

Huanglei3 · Published 2023-04-26 · Updated 2024-08-08 · CVE-2023-26930

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XPDF version 4.04

Description A Buffer Overflow issue allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. The vendor states that this is an expected abort on out-of-memory error.

Recommendations For XPDF version 4.04, consider restricting the use of the pdftotext.cc function to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-120

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2024-10474

ALT-PU-2024-10804

ALT-PU-2024-7465

CVE-2023-26930

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Xpdf

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-26930 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26930 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-26930 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-26930 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-26930 · Security Note
• https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/62930 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/51620 · Telegram Post