CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8875

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2016-10-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

The ConvertToPDF plugin in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 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 TIFF image, aka "Data from Faulting Address is used as one or more arguments in a subsequent Function Call starting at ConvertToPDF_x86!CreateFXPDFConvertor."

Affected configurations

• foxitsoftware phantompdf (<= 8.0.5) • foxitsoftware reader (<= 8.0.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References