881351 – (CVE-2021-40226, CVE-2023-2662) app-text/xpdf: multiple vulnerabilities

Bug 881351 (CVE-2021-40226, CVE-2023-2662) - app-text/xpdf: multiple vulnerabilities

Summary: app-text/xpdf: multiple vulnerabilities

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	CVE-2021-40226, CVE-2023-2662

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopi...
Whiteboard:	B2 [upstream]
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Reported:	2022-11-14 22:27 UTC by John Helmert III
Modified:	2024-04-03 10:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description John Helmert III archtester

2022-11-14 22:27:27 UTC

CVE-2021-40226:

xpdfreader 4.03 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow.

Another famous "fixed in next release", but from over a year ago. Did
this get a fix?

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2023-06-08 04:30:13 UTC

CVE-2023-2662 (https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?t=42505):

In Xpdf 4.04 (and earlier), a bad color space object in the input PDF file can cause a divide-by-zero.

Comment 2 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2023-10-23 12:39:16 UTC

(In reply to John Helmert III from comment #0)
> CVE-2021-40226:
> 
> xpdfreader 4.03 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow.
> 
> Another famous "fixed in next release", but from over a year ago. Did
> this get a fix?

Looks like it from the 4.04 changes list:

"Added a missing bounds check on stream DecodeParms arrays."