KLA11065 Multiple vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Foxit Reader. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, cause denial of service and obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An use-after-free vulnerability in the AFParseDateEx function can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
2. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the PDF file parsing can be exploited remotely to btain sensitive information;
3. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the ObjStm objects parsing can be exploited remotely to btain sensitive information;
4. An use-after-free vulnerability in the app.alert function can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
5. A potential use-before-initialization vulnerabilitythe gotoURL method can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Original advisories

Foxit Security Bulletins

Related products

Foxit-Reader

CVE list

CVE-2017-10953 high

CVE-2017-10994 critical

CVE-2017-10941 high

CVE-2017-10942 warning

CVE-2017-10943 warning

CVE-2017-10944 warning

CVE-2017-10945 high

Solution

Update to the latest version

Foxit Reader

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• OSI

Obtain sensitive information. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to capturing by abuser information, critical for user or system.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• Foxit Reader 8.3.0.14878 and earlier