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🛡️ AZL-47857 — cppcheck (CVE-2024-7868)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2024-7868 affecting package cppcheck 2.7-2

In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), invalid header info in a DCT (JPEG) stream can lead to an uninitialized variable in the DCT decoder. The proof-of-concept PDF file causes a segfault attempting to read from an invalid address.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

AZL-47857 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cppcheck

Timeline and source

Published on 15 August 2024 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-15
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cppcheck

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