CVE-2015-8868
poppler: heap buffer overflow in ExponentialFunction
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
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 · 5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow