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    CVE-2008-1693

    The 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.

    Published:Apr 17, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Apr 18, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.07598
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Poppler
    Product
    Poppler
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2025-52885 (CVSS 6.1) — Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. A use-after-free (wr…
    CVE-2025-43718 (CVSS 2.9) — Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structure…
    CVE-2025-52886 (CVSS 5.5) — Poppler is a PDF rendering library. Versions prior to 25.06.0 use `std::atomic_int` for reference counting. Be…
    CVE-2024-56378 (CVSS 4.3) — libpoppler.so in Poppler through 24.12.0 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability within the JBIG2Bitmap::combi…
    CVE-2010-3704 (CVSS 6.8) — The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in the PDF parser in xpdf before 3.02pl5, poppler 0.8.7 and…
    CVE-2010-3703 (CVSS 4.3) — The PostScriptFunction::PostScriptFunction function in poppler/Function.cc in the PDF parser in poppler 0.8.7 …
    CVE-2009-3607 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the create_surface_from_thumbnail_data function in glib/poppler-page.cc in Poppler 0.x all…
    CVE-2009-3606 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep function in Xpdf before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in…
    CVE-2009-3603 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12…
    CVE-2009-3608 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the ObjectStream::ObjectStream function in XRef.cc in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler …

    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29816
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29834
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29836
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29851
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29853
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29868
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29869
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29884
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29885
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30019
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30033
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31035
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1019893
    http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1548
    http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:089
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:173
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:197
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28830
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-2
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1265/references
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1266/references
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41884
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11226
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00522.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29816
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29834
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29836
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29851
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29853
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29868
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29869
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29884
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29885
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30019
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30033
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31035
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1019893
    http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1548
    http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:089
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:173
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:197
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28830
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-2
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1265/references
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1266/references
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41884
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11226
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00522.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High