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Vulnerability details: VCID-616s-f4d3-aaaj
Vulnerability ID VCID-616s-f4d3-aaaj
Aliases CVE-2015-8868
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.4
Risk 4.2
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8868.html
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2580
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326225
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8868
cvssv2 4.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 9.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8868
cvssv3 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8868
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2958-1
generic_textual Medium http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/1
Reference id Reference type URL
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://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8868.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-8868.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-8868
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93476
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b3425dd3261679958cd56c0f71995c15d2124433
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8868
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-15
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2958-1
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
1326225 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326225
822578 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822578
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.39.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.39.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2015-8868 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8868
RHSA-2016:2580 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2580
USN-2958-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2958-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8868
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8868
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.71012
EPSS Score 0.00759
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
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