There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• glyphandcog xpdfreader4.01

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-24107Xpdf prior to 4.04 lacked an integer overflow check in JPXStream.cc.
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• CVE-2022-24106In Xpdf prior to 4.04, the DCT (JPEG) decoder was incorrectly allowing the 'interleaved' flag to be changed after the first scan of the imag
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• CVE-2019-16115In Xpdf 4.01.01, a stack-based buffer under-read could be triggered in IdentityFunction::transform in Function.cc, used by GfxAxialShading::
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• CVE-2019-14288An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.01.01.
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• CVE-2019-13289In Xpdf 4.01.01, there is a use-after-free vulnerability in the function JBIG2Stream::close() located at JBIG2Stream.cc.
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• CVE-2019-13283In Xpdf 4.01.01, a heap-based buffer over-read could be triggered in strncpy from FoFiType1::parse in fofi/FoFiType1.cc because it does not
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.