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FKIE_CVE-2015-8868

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-06 17:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ExponentialFunction::ExponentialFunction function in Poppler before 0.40.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid blend mode in the ExtGState dictionary in a crafted PDF document.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183107.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183142.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00068.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00077.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3563
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89324
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93476
cve@mitre.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b3425dd3261679958cd56c0f71995c15d2124433
cve@mitre.orghttps://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183107.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183142.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00068.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00077.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3563
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89324
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93476
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b3425dd3261679958cd56c0f71995c15d2124433
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-15
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 23
debian debian_linux 8.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.10
freedesktop poppler 0.39.0
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