Secunia Advisory SA37049

Foxit Reader Firefox Plugin Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA37049
Release Date 2009-10-15
Last Update 2009-11-18
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Foxit Reader 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in Foxit Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Foxit Reader plugin for Firefox (npFoxitReaderPlugin.dll). This can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page which repeatedly loads and unloads the plugin.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

This is related to vulnerability #12 in:
SA36983

The vulnerability is confirmed with Foxit Reader version 3.1.2.1013 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 3.1.3.1030 and install the latest Firefox Plugin via the internal update mechanism.

Provided and/or discovered by
Originally discovered in Adobe Reader by SkyLined.

Reported in Foxit Reader by MrX.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/198

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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Subject: Foxit Reader Firefox Plugin Memory Corruption Vulnerability
 
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