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	Software Inspectors   Scan Online   Personal (PSI)   Network (NSI 2.0) Solutions For   Security Professionals   Security Vendors Free Solutions For   Open Communities   Journalists & Media Secunia Advisories   Search   Historic Advisories   Listed By Product   Listed By Vendor   Statistics / Graphs   Secunia Research   Report Vulnerability   About Advisories Virus Information   Chronological List   Last 10 Virus Alerts   About Virus Information Secunia Customers   Customer Area CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1693 NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE. 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-603-2   http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-603-1 SUSE   http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html   http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html ST   1019893 SAID   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: SA30033   Secunia Advisory: SA30019   Secunia Advisory: SA30717   Secunia Advisory: SA31035 REDHAT   http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0240.html   http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0262.html   http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html   http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0238.html MANDRIVA   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:089 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 Return to the previous page. Secunia PSI Scan | Patch | Track Free Download Secunia Poll Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network? Yes, I do it all the time Yes, but I do it rarely No See Results    Most Popular Advisories 1. OpenBSD BIND Query Port DNS Cache Poisoning 2. Linux Kernel LDT Buffer Size Handling Vulnerability 3. Apple Safari Cross-Domain Cookie Injection Vulnerability 4. Drupal Session Fixation Vulnerability 5. Debian update for clamav 6. Red Hat update for thunderbird 7. dnsmasq Denial of Service and DNS Cache Poisoning 8. IPCop update for perl 9. Slackware update for dnsmasq 10. Red Hat update for kernel
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