CVE-2022-41842 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in gfseek(_IO_FILE*, long, int) in goo/gfile.cc.

Published: 2022-09-30

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-45009	An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in gfseek(_IO_FILE*, long, int) in goo/gfile.cc.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00333.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42340&p=43928&hilit=gfseek#p43928

History

Tue, 20 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Xpdfreader Xpdf

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-30T04:21:47.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-20T19:37:39.861Z

Reserved: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-41842

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:56:38.002Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-30T05:15:11.473

Modified: 2025-05-20T20:15:26.277

Link: CVE-2022-41842

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-787

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