CVE-2022-38349 (GCVE-0-2022-38349)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:27
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
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