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CVE-2015-8868

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ExponentialFunction::ExponentialFunction function in Poppler...

7.8 HighFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

4.56%Down 0.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.8

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.

Record
CVE-2015-8868
CVSS 3.0
7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
9.3 HighAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2015-8868
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-8724 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2015-8724
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-x4hh-g34g-m3m8 7.8

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ExponentialFunction::ExponentialFunction function in Poppler...

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.

Record
GHSA-x4hh-g34g-m3m8
CVSS 3.0
7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.8

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.

Record
CVE-2015-8868
CVSS 3.0
7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2015-8868 7.8

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8868
CVSS 3.0
7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-8868 7.8

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8868
CVSS 3.0
7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1543-1 No score

Security update for poppler

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2015-8868: Corrupted PDF file can corrupt heap, causing DoS (bsc#976844)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1543-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1544-1 No score

Security update for poppler

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2015-8868: Corrupted PDF file can corrupt heap, causing DoS (bsc#976844)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1544-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2958-1 No score

poppler vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the poppler pdfseparate tool incorrectly handled certain filenames. A local attacker could use this issue to cause the tool to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-4473, CVE-2013-4474)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2015-8868)

Record
USN-2958-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
poppler
Debian:12
 before 0.38.0-3
0.38.0-3
poppler
Debian:13
 before 0.38.0-3
0.38.0-3
poppler
Debian:14
 before 0.38.0-3
0.38.0-3
poppler
Debian:7
 before 0.18.4-6+deb7u1, plus listed versions
0.18.4-6
0.18.4-6+deb7u1
poppler
Debian:8
 before 0.26.5-2+deb8u1, plus listed versions
0.26.5-20.26.5-2+deb8u1~bpo70+1
0.26.5-2+deb8u1
poppler-cpp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-demos
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
poppler-glib-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-demos
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-demos
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-cpp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-demos
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-glib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-qt
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
 before 0:0.26.5-16.el7
0:0.26.5-16.el7
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
 before 0.24.4-12.1
0.24.4-12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
 before 0.12.3-1.12.1
0.12.3-1.12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
 before 0.12.3-1.12.1
0.12.3-1.12.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
 before 0.12.3-1.12.1
0.12.3-1.12.1
poppler
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
 before 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4, plus listed versions
0.24.1-0ubuntu10.24.3-0ubuntu10.24.3-0ubuntu20.24.3-0ubuntu30.24.3-0ubuntu4
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0.24.3-0ubuntu50.24.3-0ubuntu60.24.3-0ubuntu70.24.3-0ubuntu80.24.3-0ubuntu100.24.3-0ubuntu120.24.5-0ubuntu30.24.5-2ubuntu10.24.5-2ubuntu20.24.5-2ubuntu40.24.5-2ubuntu4.10.24.5-2ubuntu4.20.24.5-2ubuntu4.3
0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4
poppler
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4, plus listed versions
0.24.1-0ubuntu10.24.3-0ubuntu10.24.3-0ubuntu20.24.3-0ubuntu30.24.3-0ubuntu4
Show 13 moreShow less
0.24.3-0ubuntu50.24.3-0ubuntu60.24.3-0ubuntu70.24.3-0ubuntu80.24.3-0ubuntu100.24.3-0ubuntu120.24.5-0ubuntu30.24.5-2ubuntu10.24.5-2ubuntu20.24.5-2ubuntu40.24.5-2ubuntu4.10.24.5-2ubuntu4.20.24.5-2ubuntu4.3
0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2015-8868 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Freedesktop Poppler, published December 31, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 4.56%, the 91st percentile. Fixed in poppler 0.38.0-3.

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