TI-2023-11829 Aliases CVE-2023-26930 GHSA-g4vj-r7jx-86jx

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial…

LOW 25CWE-120Published 2023-04-26 · Updated 2024-08-02

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-120 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

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.”

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00336 27th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.04:::::::*	4.04	Vulnerable	Xpdfreader

cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.04 Vulnerable ·Xpdfreader

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-26930
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g4vj-r7jx-86jx

References

Exploit 1

https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted

Advisory 1

https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34

TI-2021-11232 Integer overflow in Apple macOS KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
TI-2024-03046 Stack overflow in Xpdf 4.05 due to object loop in attachments CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
TI-2024-03045 Stack overflow in Xpdf 4.05 due to object loop in PDF object stream CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
TI-2023-02492 Stack overflow in Xpdf 4.04 due to object loop in PDF embedded file tree CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
TI-2022-22500 Stack overflow vulnerability in function gmalloc in goo/gmem.cc in xpdf 4.04, allows… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
TI-2022-22499 Stack overflow vulnerability in function Dict::find in xpdf/Dict.cc in xpdf 4.04, allows… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5

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Sources

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