CVE-2016-8879 — Out-of-bounds Write in Phantompdf

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write3 documents3 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Foxitsoftware PhantompdfFoxitsoftware Reader
Timeline
PublishedOct 31
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86.dll) in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) via a crafted JPEG2000 image embedded in a PDF document, aka an "Exploitable - Heap Corruption" issue.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-v565-994p-c9gg: The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-8879: The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86↗2016-10-31
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