VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2008-1693
CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.94%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-04-18
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation