CVE-2015-8868

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-05-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Poppler (Freedesktop)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183107.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183142.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00068.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00077.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3563
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89324
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93476
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b3425dd3261679958cd56c0f71995c15d2124433
• https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-15