CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0746

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in kpdf results from incomplete application of patches from xpdf related to CVE-2005-3627. This allows attackers to exploit flaws that were not fully fixed.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of context-dependent attacks that could lead to arbitrary code execution or data disclosure through unpatched vulnerabilities in kpdf.

Recommendation

Update kpdf to the latest version that includes all xpdf patches for CVE-2005-3627. If no update is available, consider using an alternative PDF reader.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Certain patches for kpdf do not include all relevant patches from xpdf that were associated with CVE-2005-3627, which allows context-dependent attackers to exploit vulnerabilities that were present in CVE-2005-3627.

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