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Foxit Reader: Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-2019-13123)

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Foxit Reader: Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-2019-13123)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/30/2019
Created
02/01/2020
Added
01/24/2020
Modified
01/24/2020

Description

Foxit Reader 9.6.0.25114 and earlier has two unique RecursiveCall bugs involving 3 functions exhausting available stack memory because of Uncontrolled Recursion in the V8 JavaScript engine (issue 1 of 2).

Solution(s)

  • foxit-reader-upgrade-latest

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