Bug 2149915 (CVE-2022-43071)

Summary:	CVE-2022-43071 xpdf: a stack overflow allows attackers to cause a DoS via a crafted PDF file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Marian Rehak 2022-12-01 11:28:24 UTC

A stack overflow in the Catalog::readPageLabelTree2(Object*) function of XPDF v4.04 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file.

Reference:

https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42349&p=43959#p43959

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2022-12-01 11:28:40 UTC

Created xpdf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2149917]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2149916]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-09 12:13:47 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.