CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-3625

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in the Xpdf library, used in many products (e.g., gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor), allows an attacker to cause an infinite loop (denial of service) by providing streams that end prematurely, such as CCITTFaxDecode or DCTDecode. This issue is known as 'Infinite CPU spins'.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely overload the CPU of a server or workstation, causing service unavailability for users.

Recommendation

Update all products using Xpdf to a version that fixes this vulnerability, or apply a patch available from the system distributor.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams that end prematurely, as demonstrated using the (1) CCITTFaxDecode and (2) DCTDecode streams, aka "Infinite CPU spins."

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS