CVE-2023-3044 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An excessively large PDF page size (found in fuzz testing, unlikely in normal PDF files) can result in a divide-by-zero in Xpdf's text extraction code.

This is related to CVE-2022-30524, but the problem here is caused by a very large page size, rather than by a very large character coordinate.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00024.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Xpdfreader	Xpdf

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-43736	An excessively large PDF page size (found in fuzz testing, unlikely in normal PDF files) can result in a divide-by-zero in Xpdf's text extraction code. This is related to CVE-2022-30524, but the problem here is caused by a very large page size, rather than by a very large character coordinate.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/baker221/poc-xpdf
https://www.xpdfreader.com/security-bug/CVE-2023-3044.html

History

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GandC

Published: 2023-06-02T22:32:31.677Z

Updated: 2025-01-08T17:53:11.882Z

Reserved: 2023-06-01T22:02:19.916Z

Link: CVE-2023-3044

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:41:04.131Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-02T23:15:09.580

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:16:18.800

Link: CVE-2023-3044

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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