CVE-2016-6169 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Foxit Reader

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Foxitsoftware Foxit ReaderFoxitsoftware Phantompdf
Timeline
PublishedFeb 7
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF 7.3.4.311 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code via the Bezier data in a crafted PDF file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3mxh-jg23-hw9c: Heap-based buffer overflow in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF 7↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2016-6169: Heap-based buffer overflow in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF 7↗2018-02-07
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CVE-2016-6169 — Foxit Reader vulnerability | cvebase