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CVE-2008-1693

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
18/04/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.7.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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