🛡️ CVE-2022-43295 — xpdf

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD

5.5

CVSS Score

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Description

XPDF v4.04 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the function FileStream::copy() at xpdf/Stream.cc:795.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-43295 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

CVE-2022-43295 is recorded against 1 package.

xpdf

Timeline and source

Published on 14 November 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

forum.xpdfreader.com
forum.xpdfreader.com

CVE-2022-43295 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-787

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2022-11-14

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
xpdf	—	—

References

Vendor Advisory https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?t=42360

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