PT-2019-17396 · Foxit · Foxit Reader+1

Published 2019-01-03 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2019-5005

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Foxit Reader versions prior to 9.4 PhantomPDF versions prior to 9.4

Description The issue allows for a Denial of Service, causing the application to crash, via image data. This occurs because two bytes are written to the end of the allocated memory without checking if it will cause corruption. The vulnerability is related to the parsing of TIF files in the ConvertToPDF feature.

Recommendations For Foxit Reader versions prior to 9.4, update to version 9.4 or later to resolve the issue. For PhantomPDF versions prior to 9.4, update to version 9.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of the ConvertToPDF feature with TIF files until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-5005

ZDI-19-132

Affected Products

Foxit Reader

Phantompdf

References · 4

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-19-132 · Security Note
• https://foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5005 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5005 · Security Note