Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF JPEG2000 Image Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2016-8879 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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