CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8878

8.8 HIGH 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])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

Out-of-Bounds read vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows, when the gflags app is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image embedded in the XFA stream in a PDF document, aka "Data from Faulting Address may be used as a return value starting at FOXITREADER."

Affected configurations

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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References