CVE-2008-1693

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-1693
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercanonical
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-04-18 15:05:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Poppler Poppler 0.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.1.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.1.2 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.2.0 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.3.0 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.3.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.3.2 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.3.3 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.4.0 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.4.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.4.2 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.4.3 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.4.4 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.0 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.2 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.3 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.4 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.9 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.5.91 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.6.0 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.6.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.6.2 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.6.3 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.6.4 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.7.0 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.7.1 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler 0.7.2 All All All
Application Poppler Poppler All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Gentoo update for poppler - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:197 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: poppler-0.5.4-9.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:173 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Fedora update for poppler - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Debian update for xpdf - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat update for poppler - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Poppler and Xpdf PDF Rendering Library Embedded Font Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat update for kdegraphics - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Poppler Embedded Fonts Processing Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:200?8:011 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
USN-603-2: KOffice vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Xpdf Embedded Fonts Processing Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Xpdf Bug in Processing Embedded Fonts Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Ubuntu update for poppler - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat update for xpdf - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1548-1 xpdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1606-1 poppler af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Red Hat update for gpdf - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for KOffice - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for poppler - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-603-1: poppler vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
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