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high 7.5

CVE-2006-0301 json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Splash.cc in xpdf, as used in other products such as (1) poppler, (2) kdegraphics, (3) gpdf, (4) pdfkit.frame…

published 2006-01-30 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0308

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Splash.cc in xpdf, as used in other products such as (1) poppler, (2) kdegraphics, (3) gpdf, (4) pdfkit.framework, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted splash images that produce certain values that exceed the width or height of the associated bitmap.

Patch / fix

  • xpdf Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.01-6
  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.4.5-1
  • libextractor Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.5.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0301

  • kdegraphics RHEL 4 7:3.3.1-3.7
  • xpdf RHEL 4 1:3.00-11.12

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0206RHSA-2006:0201

  • poppler openSUSE Tumbleweed 21.08.0-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11181-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-0301 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 xpdf 3.00-11.12, kdegraphics 3.3.1-3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 xpdf 3.00-11.12, kdegraphics 3.3.1-3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 xpdf 3.00-11.12, kdegraphics 3.3.1-3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 xpdf 3.00-11.12, kdegraphics 3.3.1-3.7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0206

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.