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Foxit Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 23 Aug 2012 10:09 Release Date: 23 Aug 2012 4802 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

TYPE: Productivity Products

A vulnerability has been identified in Foxit Reader. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.

 

A remote user can create a specially crafted PDF file that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a memory corruption error and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the target user.

 


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Version 5.1.4.0104 and prior

Solutions

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