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CVE-2015-8868

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8868 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in the Poppler PDF rendering library, affecting various distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora, and freedesktop. This vulnerability, rated High severity (CVSS 7.8), allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to open a crafted PDF document with an invalid blend mode. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0456 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: poppler-0:0.26.5-16.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: poppler
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: compat-poppler022

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8868Moderate

poppler: heap buffer overflow in ExponentialFunction

Apr 11, 2016

References

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