CVE-2022-38231

HIGH 7.8CVE-2022-38231 · Published 16/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-38231 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting xpdf (xpdf project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xpdf xpdf_project	`= 3.04`	No fix yet

XPDF commit ffaf11c was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via DCTStream::getChar() at /xpdf/Stream.cc.

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