CVE-2022-41844 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in XRef::fetch(int, int, Object*, int) in xpdf/XRef.cc, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-16369 and CVE-2019-16088.

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.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Xpdfreader	Xpdf

Configuration 1 [-]

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

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42340&p=43928&hilit=gfseek#p43928
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42308&p=43844&hilit=XRef%3A%3Afetch#p43844

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'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-30T04:21:27.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-20T19:41:45.257Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-41844

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:56:38.206Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-30T05:15:11.703

Modified: 2025-05-20T20:15:26.697

Link: CVE-2022-41844

Redhat

No data.

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