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Publication date: 2025-10-16

Last updated on: 2025-10-21

Assigner: Glyph & Cog, LLC

Description

In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), a PDF object loop in a CMap, via the "UseCMap" entry, leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-10-16

Last Modified

2025-10-21

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-10-17

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-11896

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
xpdf	xpdf	4.0

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-674	The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can cause a stack overflow due to infinite recursion, which may lead to application crashes or denial of service when processing crafted PDF files.

Executive Summary

This vulnerability in Xpdf 4.05 and earlier involves a PDF object loop in a CMap through the "UseCMap" entry, which causes infinite recursion and results in a stack overflow.

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