CWE
119
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2015-8868: Buffer Overflow

First published: Fri May 06 2016(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Fedoraproject Fedora=23
Debian Debian Linux=8.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=15.10
freedesktop poppler=0.39.0

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