Denial of Service Vulnerability in Xpdf Streams

CVE-2005-3625 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams that end prematurely, as demonstrated using the (1) CCITTFaxDecode and (2) DCTDecode streams, aka "Infinite CPU spins."

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