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CVE-2019-5005

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows. Th...

Medium CVSS 5.5

Overview

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows. They allowed Denial of Service (application crash) via image data, because two bytes are written to the end of the allocated memory without judging whether this will cause corruption.

CWE: CWE-787 Published: 2019-01-03T23:29:00.337
Risk analysis

This vulnerability is rated 🟡 MEDIUM.

  • CVSS: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
  • Detected tags: none (tag impact: LOW)

Recommended actions:

  • Prioritize remediation based on business criticality and exposure.
  • Limit exposure and increase monitoring until fixed.

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