CVE-2005-2097

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

16/08/2005

Last modified:

03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

2.10

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kpdf::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:3.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:3.0_pl2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:3.0_pl3:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kpdf::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:3.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:3.0_pl2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:3.0_pl3:::::::*

CVE-2005-2097

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools