Vulnerability in GNOME Gpdf

CVE-2006-1244

Unspecified vulnerability in certain versions of xpdf after 3.00, as used in various products including (a) pdfkit.framework, (b) gpdf, (c) pdftohtml, and (d) libextractor, has unknown impact and user-assisted attack vectors, possibly involving errors in (1) gmem.c, (2) SplashXPathScanner.cc, (3) JBIG2Stream.cc, (4) JPXStream.cc, and/or (5) Stream.cc. NOTE: this description is based on Debian advisory DSA 979, which is based on changes that were made after other vulnerabilities such as CVE-2006-0301 and CVE-2005-3624 through CVE-2005-3628 were fixed. Some of these newer fixes appear to be security-relevant, although it is not clear if they fix specific issues or are defensive in nature.

EPSS: 0.022 (81.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)