debian · CVE-2005-3191

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:59:09 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-3191 medium priority: Debian including 4 source packages (cups, libextractor, poppler, xpdf), 20 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 20.

Description:

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2) DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code (Stream.cc) in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (a) Poppler, (b) teTeX, (c) KDE kpdf, (d) pdftohtml, (e) KOffice KWord, (f) CUPS, and (g) libextractor allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with an out-of-range number of components (numComps), which is used as an array index.

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