CVE-2006-0301: Xpdf

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Splash.cc in xpdf, as used in other products such as (1) poppler, (2) kdegraphics, (3) gpdf, (4) pdfkit.framework, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted splash images that produce certain values that exceed the width or height of the associated bitmap.

Affected products

• Xpdf Xpdf: any version

Published 2006-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.