Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting xpdf package, versions <4.04-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE323-XPDF-14185083
  • published4 Dec 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2022

Introduced: 22 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-38171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.23 xpdf to version 4.04-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xpdf package and not the xpdf package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.23 relevant fixed versions and status.

Xpdf prior to version 4.04 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIG2Stream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability described by CVE-2021-30860 (Apple CoreGraphics).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1