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CVE-2015-8868

poppler: heap buffer overflow in ExponentialFunction

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 11, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A heap-buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow