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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1693
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1693

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41884

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-2

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html

ST
  1019893

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA30019
  Secunia Advisory: SA30033
  Secunia Advisory: SA29885
  Secunia Advisory: SA29884
  Secunia Advisory: SA29869
  Secunia Advisory: SA29868
  Secunia Advisory: SA29836
  Secunia Advisory: SA29834
  Secunia Advisory: SA29816
  Secunia Advisory: SA29853
  Secunia Advisory: SA29851
  Secunia Advisory: SA30717
  Secunia Advisory: SA31035

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11226

MANDRIVA
  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

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1548

BID
  28830


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