CVE-2008-1693

CVE Details

Release Date:2008-04-18

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-1693 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (gpdf)ELSA-2008-02622008-05-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kdegraphics)ELSA-2008-02382008-04-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (xpdf)ELSA-2008-02402008-04-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (poppler)ELSA-2008-02392008-04-17



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