CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.8. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2008-1693
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
4.94%
Original NVD Description
The CairoFont::create function in CairoFontEngine.cc in Poppler, possibly before 0.8.0, as used in Xpdf, Evince, ePDFview, KWord, and other applications, does not properly handle embedded fonts in PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted font object, related to dereferencing a function pointer associated with the type of this font object.