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Vulnerability details: VCID-nptq-5r7m-aaah
Vulnerability ID VCID-nptq-5r7m-aaah
Aliases CVE-2008-1693
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
System Score Found at
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0238
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0239
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0240
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0262
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rhbs high https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441722
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1693
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-1693.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1693
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1693
http://secunia.com/advisories/29816
http://secunia.com/advisories/29834
http://secunia.com/advisories/29836
http://secunia.com/advisories/29851
http://secunia.com/advisories/29853
http://secunia.com/advisories/29868
http://secunia.com/advisories/29869
http://secunia.com/advisories/29884
http://secunia.com/advisories/29885
http://secunia.com/advisories/30019
http://secunia.com/advisories/30033
http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
http://secunia.com/advisories/31035
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019893
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41884
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11226
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00522.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1548
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:089
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:173
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:197
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28830
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1265/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1266/references
441722 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441722
476842 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476842
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CVE-2008-1693 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1693
GLSA-200804-18 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200804-18
RHSA-2008:0238 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0238
RHSA-2008:0239 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0239
RHSA-2008:0240 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0240
RHSA-2008:0262 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0262
USN-603-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/603-1/
USN-603-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/603-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1693
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
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.90885
EPSS Score 0.06879
Published At June 15, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
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