CVE-2023-26930
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.003 · 27 %ileDEEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (3)
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advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-1089xpdf: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2023-04-26csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in xpdf ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
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sources
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references (7)
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- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-26930/cnnvd
- https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34cnnvd
- https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_abortedcnnvd
- https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_abortedenisa_euvd
- https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34Third Party Advisorynvd
- https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_abortedExploitnvd
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