Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-8868: poppler heap buffer overflow
9
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
05/06/2016
07/25/2018
08/30/2017
01/08/2018
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-poppler
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