CVE-2005-3192

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    CVE-2005-3192

    Published: 8 Dec 2005Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as (1) Poppler, (2) teTeX, (3) KDE kpdf, and (4) pdftohtml, (5) KOffice KWord, (6) CUPS, and (7) libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps (number of components) field.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051201-01-U, ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U, ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060201-01-U, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-868.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/17897/, http://secunia.com/advisories/17908, http://secunia.com/advisories/17912, http://secunia.com/advisories/17916, http://secunia.com/advisories/17920, http://secunia.com/advisories/17921, http://secunia.com/advisories/17926, http://secunia.com/advisories/17929, http://secunia.com/advisories/17940, http://secunia.com/advisories/17955, http://secunia.com/advisories/17976, http://secunia.com/advisories/18009, http://secunia.com/advisories/18055, http://secunia.com/advisories/18061, http://secunia.com/advisories/18189, http://secunia.com/advisories/18191, http://secunia.com/advisories/18192, http://secunia.com/advisories/18303, http://secunia.com/advisories/18313, http://secunia.com/advisories/18336, http://secunia.com/advisories/18349, http://secunia.com/advisories/18380, http://secunia.com/advisories/18385, http://secunia.com/advisories/18387, http://secunia.com/advisories/18389, http://secunia.com/advisories/18398, http://secunia.com/advisories/18407, http://secunia.com/advisories/18416, http://secunia.com/advisories/18428, http://secunia.com/advisories/18436, http://secunia.com/advisories/18448, http://secunia.com/advisories/18503, http://secunia.com/advisories/18517, http://secunia.com/advisories/18534, http://secunia.com/advisories/18549, http://secunia.com/advisories/18554, http://secunia.com/advisories/18582, http://secunia.com/advisories/18674, http://secunia.com/advisories/18675, http://secunia.com/advisories/18679, http://secunia.com/advisories/18908, http://secunia.com/advisories/18913, http://secunia.com/advisories/19230, http://secunia.com/advisories/19377, http://secunia.com/advisories/19797, http://secunia.com/advisories/19798, http://secunia.com/advisories/25729, http://secunia.com/advisories/26413, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-931, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-932, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-936, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-937, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-950, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-961, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-962, http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=344&type=vulnerabilities, http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051207-1.txt, http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051207-2.txt, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:003, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:004, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:005, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:006, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:008, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:010, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:011, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_sr.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-840.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-867.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-878.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2755, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2786, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2787, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2788, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2789, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2790, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2856, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2280, ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.01pl1.patch, http://secunia.com/advisories/17897/, http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=344&type=vulnerabilities, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-840.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15725, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.15/SCOSA-2006.15.txt, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.20/SCOSA-2006.20.txt, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.21/SCOSA-2006.21.txt, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342289, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0001.html, http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-003.txt, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/235, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/240, http://securitytracker.com/id?1015309, http://securitytracker.com/id?1015324, http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.472683, http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.474747, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102972-1, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-08.xml, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-02.xml, http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00015.html, http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00016.html, http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00036.html, http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00037.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0160.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418883/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427053/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427990/100/0/threaded, http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0072/, http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-227-1, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23442, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1609, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10914

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High