CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8843

7.4 HIGH Published 2016-04-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The Foxit Cloud Update Service (FoxitCloudUpdateService) in Foxit Reader 6.1 through 6.2.x and 7.x before 7.2.2, when an update to the Cloud plugin is available, allows local users to gain privileges by writing crafted data to a shared memory region, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected configurations

• foxitsoftware foxit reader 6.1 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 6.1.2 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 6.1.4 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 6.2 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 6.2.1 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 7.0 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 7.0.1 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 7.0.6 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 7.1.5 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 7.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References