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Foxit Reader: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2020-26535)

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Foxit Reader: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2020-26535)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/02/2020
Created
10/07/2020
Added
10/06/2020
Modified
10/06/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. If TslAlloc attempts to allocate thread local storage but obtains an unacceptable index value, V8 throws an exception that leads to a write access violation (and read access violation).

Solution(s)

  • foxit-reader-upgrade-10_1

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