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(CVE-2022-41842)\nMissing bounds check in CFF font parser caused invalid memory access.\n(CVE-2022-41843)\nPDF object loop in AcroForm::scanField. (CVE-2022-41844)\nPDF object loop in Catalog::readPageLabelTree2. (CVE-2022-43071)\nPDF object loop in Catalog::countPageTree. (CVE-2022-43295)\nPDF object loop in Catalog::countPageTree. (CVE-2022-45586)\nPDF object loop in Catalog::countPageTree. (CVE-2022-45587)\nDivide-by-zero in Xpdf 4.04 due to bad color space object.\n(CVE-2023-2662)\nPDF object loop in Catalog::readPageLabelTree2. (CVE-2023-2663)\nPDF object loop in Catalog::readEmbeddedFileTree. (CVE-2023-2664)\nDivide-by-zero in Xpdf 4.04 due to very large page size. (CVE-2023-3044)\nDeadlock in Xpdf 4.04 due to PDF object stream references.\n(CVE-2023-3436)\n","status":"published","published":"2024-02-10T19:02:27Z","modified":"2026-04-16T04:42:43.840361413Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:42.684501Z"}]}}