CVE-2023-26930

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.5) in xpdfreader xpdf. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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-120
Published: 2023-04-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

xpdfreader:xpdf

References

https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted
https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted

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