Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29869
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:173
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11226
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1265/references
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:089
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29884
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30019
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29885
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019893
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28830
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29853
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29851
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29816
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:197
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1548
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29868
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1266/references
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31035
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41884
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30033
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29836
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29834
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00522.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29869
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:173
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11226
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1265/references
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:089
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29884
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30019
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29885
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019893
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28830
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29853
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29851
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29816
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:197
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1548
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29868
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1266/references
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31035
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41884
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30033
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29836
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29834
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00522.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30717