Medium severity · published Sep 30, 2022
CVE-2022-41842
An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in gfseek(_IO_FILE*, long, int) in goo/gfile.cc.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XP
Xpdf · Xpdfreader
4.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41842
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41842
Patch
http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html
Exploit
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42340&p=43928&hilit=gfseek#p43928
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