Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF

CVE-2016-8878 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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."

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