CVE-2005-2097
N/A
Published: August 16, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsXpdfKpdf
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
xpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the "loca" table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a "broken" loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (22)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SCO
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.42/SCOSA-2005.42.txtThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/17277Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18398Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18407Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102972-1Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-780Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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