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Secunia Advisory SA40903

Foxit Reader FreeType Font Parsing Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA40903
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2010-08-06
Last Update 2011-06-22
   
Popularity 3,800 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Foxit Reader 4.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-1797 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-1908 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Foxit Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) The application bundles a vulnerable version of the FreeType2 library.

For more information:
SA40816

2) An integer overflow error in the Type1 font decoder can be exploited via specially crafted fonts in a PDF document.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.

This vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.0.0.0619 only.


Solution
Update to version 4.1.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Reported by the vendor
2) David Seidman, Microsoft

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Foxit:
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/bugfix.php

Microsoft (MSVR11-005):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/msvr11-005.mspx

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Deep Links
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