CVE-2022-38171

7.8 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.8). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Xpdf prior to version 4.04 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIG2Stream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability described by CVE-2021-30860 (Apple CoreGraphics).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-190
Published: 2022-08-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freedesktop:poppler
xpdfreader:xpdf

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/11
http://www.xpdfreader.com/security-fixes.html
https://dl.xpdfreader.com/xpdf-4.04.tar.gz
https://github.com/jeffssh/CVE-2021-30860
https://github.com/zmanion/Vulnerabilities/blob/main/CVE-2022-38171.md

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