PT-2024-22965 · Xpdf+1 · Xpdf+1

Song Jiaxuan · Published 2024-03-26 · Updated 2025-12-22 · CVE-2024-2971

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xpdf versions 4.05 and earlier

Description The issue is an out-of-bounds array write in Xpdf, triggered by a negative object number in an indirect reference in the input PDF file. This occurs when the software processes a PDF file containing a negative object number, leading to an array write operation that exceeds the bounds of the allocated memory.

Recommendations For Xpdf versions 4.05 and earlier, update to a version later than 4.05 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2025-16036

CVE-2024-2971

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Xpdf

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2971 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-2971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://xpdfreader.com/security-bug/CVE-2024-2971.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-2971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2971 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1772743449206288493 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/74733 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1772784451170251016 · Twitter Post