CVE-2015-8868

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
Debian Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
poppler: 0.39.0

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

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