Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF

Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF

CVE-2017-5556 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The ConvertToPDF plugin in Foxit Reader before 8.2 and PhantomPDF before 8.2 on Windows, when the gflags app is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted JPEG image. The vulnerability could lead to information disclosure; an attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute code in the context of the current process.

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