CVE-2015-8868: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ExponentialFunction::ExponentialFunction function in Poppler before 0.40.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid blend mode in the ExtGState dictionary in a crafted PDF document.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.39.0 only

Published 2016-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.