Heap-based buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2015-8868

Vulnerability identifier: #VU33071

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8868

CWE-ID: CWE-122

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Heap-based buffer overflow in the ExponentialFunction::ExponentialFunction function in Poppler before 0.40.0. A remote attacker can use an invalid blend mode in the ExtGState dictionary in a crafted PDF document. to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Poppler
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Fedora
poppler (Alpine package)
poppler (Red Hat package)
mingw-poppler

Update to version 0.40.0.

Poppler - update to 0.40.0
poppler (Alpine package) - update to 0.24.5-r1
poppler (Red Hat package) - update to 0.26.5-16.el7
mingw-poppler - addressed in versions 0.30.0-4.fc22, 0.34.0-2.fc23

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183107.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183142.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00068.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00077.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3563
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89324
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93476
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b3425dd3261679958cd56c0f71995c15d2124433
• https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-15

• Heap-based buffer overflow in Freedesktop Poppler
• Heap-based buffer overflow in poppler (Alpine package)
• Amazon Linux AMI update for poppler
• Gentoo update for Poppler
• Fedora 22 update for mingw-poppler
• Fedora 23 update for mingw-poppler
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 update for poppler