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Foxit Reader: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2018-21240)

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Foxit Reader: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2018-21240)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/04/2020
Created
06/11/2020
Added
06/11/2020
Modified
03/07/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.2. It allows memory consumption via an ArrayBuffer(0xfffffffe) call.

Solution(s)

  • foxit-reader-upgrade-9_2

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