An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.7. It allows stack consumption via nested function calls for XML parsing.
Weakness
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phantompdf | Foxitsoftware | * | 9.7 (excluding) |
| Reader | Foxitsoftware | * | 9.7 (excluding) |