CVE-2005-3627
EPSS 4.3%Published: 12/31/2005Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3627
Description
Stream.cc in Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to modify memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DCTDecode stream with (1) a large "number of components" value that is not checked by DCTStream::readBaselineSOF or DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF, (2) a large "Huffman table index" value that is not checked by DCTStream::readHuffmanTables, and (3) certain uses of the scanInfo.numComps value by DCTStream::readScanInfo.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/cupsfrom 0, < 1.1.22-7
- Debian/libextractorfrom 0, < 0.5.9-1
- Debian/popplerfrom 0, < 0.4.4-1
- Debian/xpdffrom 0, < 3.01-4