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.”
The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted | exploit |
| https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34 | third party advisory |