CVE-2005-2097: Kde Kpdf

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the "loca" table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a "broken" loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.

Affected products

• Kde Kpdf: any version
• Xpdf Xpdf: version 3.0 only; version 3.0_pl2 only; version 3.0_pl3 only

Published 2005-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.