Uninitialized Object Vulnerability in Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031

CVE-2018-19448 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031, an uninitialized object in IReader_ContentProvider::GetDocEventHandler occurs when embedding the control into Office documents. By opening a specially crafted document, an attacker can trigger an out of bounds write condition, possibly leveraging this to gain remote code execution.

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