CVE-2008-1693

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-04-18
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

The CairoFont::create function in CairoFontEngine.cc in Poppler, possibly before 0.8.0, as used in Xpdf, Evince, ePDFview, KWord, and other applications, does not properly handle embedded fonts in PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted font object, related to dereferencing a function pointer associated with the type of this font object.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (gpdf)	ELSA-2008-0262	2008-05-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kdegraphics)	ELSA-2008-0238	2008-04-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (xpdf)	ELSA-2008-0240	2008-04-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (poppler)	ELSA-2008-0239	2008-04-17