CVE-2016-8879 in Reader

Summary

The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86.dll) in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) via a crafted JPEG2000 image embedded in a PDF document, aka an "Exploitable - Heap Corruption" issue.

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• Reservation: 10/21/2016
• Disclosure: 10/31/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-93205 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-787 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.00088
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8879
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8879
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-8879/