CVE-2016-8878 — Out-of-bounds Read in Phantompdf

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read3 documents3 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Foxitsoftware PhantompdfFoxitsoftware Reader
Timeline
PublishedOct 31
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Out-of-Bounds read vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows, when the gflags app is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image embedded in the XFA stream in a PDF document, aka "Data from Faulting Address may be used as a return value starting at FOXITREADER."

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

Patch: www.foxitsoftware.com ↗Patch: www.foxitsoftware.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-jrcm-4657-67wp: Out-of-Bounds read vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-8878: Out-of-Bounds read vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8↗2016-10-31
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