CVE-2016-8879

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86.dll) in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) via a crafted JPEG2000 image embedded in a PDF document, aka an "Exploitable - Heap Corruption" issue.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-8879
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2016-10-31T10:59:15
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2016-11-29T19:15:13
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-787 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* 1 OR 8.0.5
cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:reader:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* 1 OR 8.0.5
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93608 VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8879
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8879
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:03:40 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 11:57:03 2016-10-31T10:59Z 2016-10-31T10:59:15 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 11:57:03 2016-11-29T19:15:13 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 11:57:03 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated