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CVE-2005-3627

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 5.52%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2005-12-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2005-3627
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.52%

Original NVD 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.