CVE-2008-2950

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-2950
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-07 23:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe Page destructor in Page.cc in libpoppler in Poppler 0.8.4 and earlier deletes a pageWidgets object even if it is not initialized by a Page constructor, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-94 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Poppler Poppler All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:146 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Ubuntu update for poppler - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Poppler PDF Rendering Library Page Class Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo update for poppler - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: poppler-0.6.2-2.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Fedora update for poppler - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Poppler Memory Allocation Bug in 'Page.cc' Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
libpoppler uninitialized pointer - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Poppler <= 0.8.4 libpoppler uninitialized pointer Code Execution PoC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
oCERT.org - oCERT Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ocert.org
Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0223 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
USN-631-1: poppler vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Poppler "pageWidgets" Uninitialized Memory Access - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-07-08Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of poppler as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, or other PDF parsing applications derived from the xpdf code as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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