CVE-2008-1942 (GCVE-0-2008-1942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-24 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:41
VLAI
Summary
Foxit Reader 2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with (1) a malformed ExtGState resource containing a /Font resource, or (2) an XObject resource with a Rotate setting, which triggers memory corruption. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2186.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2008-04-23 00:00
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