CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-9251

Use After Free

Published: Nov 22, 2024 | Modified: Nov 29, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Foxit PDF Reader Annotation Use-After-Free Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the handling of Annotation objects. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-24490.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pdf_editor Foxit * 11.2.10.53951 (including)
Pdf_editor Foxit 12.0 (including) 12.1.7.15526 (including)
Pdf_editor Foxit 13.0 (including) 13.1.3.22478 (including)
Pdf_editor Foxit 2023.0 (including) 2023.3.0.23028 (including)
Pdf_editor Foxit 2024.0 (including) 2024.2.3.25184 (including)
Pdf_reader Foxit * 2024.2.3.25184 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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