This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit PhantomPDF Phantom PDF 9.1.5096. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of PDF documents. When parsing shading patterns, the process does not properly validate user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-6223.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: zdi

Published: 2018-07-31T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:21:41.567Z

Reserved: 2018-07-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-14295

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-07-31T20:29:03.353

Modified: 2018-09-27T16:11:08.647

Link: CVE-2018-14295

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