CVE-2015-8868

HIGH 7.8CVE-2015-8868 · Published 06/05/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-8868 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting poppler (freedesktop).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.6%, higher than 91.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
poppler freedesktop	`= 0.39.0`	No fix yet

Description

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

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183107.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183142.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00068.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00077.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html
debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3563
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/1
securityfocus.com/bid/89324
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi
cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit
poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-15

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