DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1693

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1693

    Published: 18 Apr 2008Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2008-1693

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1693

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/poppler?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.6.4-1

    Affected versions

    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