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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2008-2950 in the critical feed json

The Page destructor in Page.cc in libpoppler in Poppler 0.8.4 and earlier deletes a pageWidgets object even if it is not initialized by a P…

published 2008-07-07 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2941

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.0%
EPSS 15.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Page destructor in Page.cc in libpoppler in Poppler 0.8.4 and earlier deletes a pageWidgets object even if it is not initialized by a Page constructor, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.8.4-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2950

  • poppler openSUSE Tumbleweed 21.08.0-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11181-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2950 updated

poppler: uninitialized pointer free (oCERT-2008-007)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-6032)

Exploit prediction

15.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-6032 Poppler 0.8.4 - libpoppler Uninitialized pointer Code Execution local, 2008-07-08

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.