Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- POPPLER
- Published
- 4/18/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
poppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : popplerpoppler : poppler
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