CVE-2016-8879

published 2016-10-31

CVE-2016-8879: The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86.dll) in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a…

Priority P4 25 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI R S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
foxitsoftware	phantompdf	<= 8.0.5	—
foxitsoftware	reader	<= 8.0.5	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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