XPDF 4.04 is vulnerable to Null Pointer Dereference in FoFiType1C.cc:2393.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - XPDF 4.04 is vulnerable to Null Pointer Dereference in FoFiType1C.cc:2393. (CVE-2022-38928)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has xpdf packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - XPDF 4.04 is vulnerable to Null Pointer Dereference in FoFiType1C.cc:2393. (CVE-2022-38928)

  - There is a use-after-free issue in JBIG2Stream::close() located in JBIG2Stream.cc in Xpdf 4.04. It can be     triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to     cause Denial of Service or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2022-38222)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - XPDF v4.04 was discovered to contain a stack overflow vulnerability via the Object::Copy class of
    object.cc files. (CVE-2022-33108)

  - There is an invalid memory access in the TextLine class in TextOutputDev.cc in Xpdf 4.0.4 because the text
    extractor mishandles characters at large y coordinates. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a
    crafted pdf file to the pdftotext binary, which allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service
    (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2022-30524)

  - xpdf 4.04 allocates excessive memory when presented with crafted input. This can be triggered by (for
    example) sending a crafted PDF document to the pdftoppm binary. It is most easily reproduced with the
    DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=afl-clang-fast++ option. (CVE-2022-30775)

  - XPDF v4.0.4 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the component /xpdf/AcroForm.cc:538.
    (CVE-2022-36561)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-25 (Xpdf: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xpdf. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below     for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
257399	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-38928	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
242703	NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : xpdf Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0121)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	Local	high
427694	Alpine: multiple xpdf packages: security update to 4.05-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
427694	Alpine: multiple xpdf packages: security update to 4.05-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
207721	GLSA-202409-25 : Xpdf: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high

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