CVE-2008-1693

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…

published April 18, 2008

CVSS
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EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04941 · 92.1th percentile
Published
2008-04-18T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 APR 15:00Z
    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…
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