CVE-2022-24960 (GCVE-0-2022-24960)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-09 06:20 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:46
VLAI
Title
Use after free vulnerability in PDFTron SDK
Summary
A use after free vulnerability was discovered in PDFTron SDK version 9.2.0. A crafted PDF can overwrite RIP with data previously allocated on the heap. This issue affects: PDFTron PDFTron SDK 9.2.0 on OSX; 9.2.0 on Linux; 9.2.0 on Windows.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2022-03-08 00:00
Credits
Alex Niu, Tofig Suleymanov
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