CVE-2015-2790

medium

Published 2015-03-30 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Foxit Reader, Enterprise Reader, and PhantomPDF before 7.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted (1) Ubyte Size in a DataSubBlock structure or (2) LZWMinimumCodeSize in a GIF image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36335 dos windows

Francis Provencher · 2015-03-11

Foxit Products GIF Conversion - 'DataSubBlock' Memory Corruption

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-36334 dos windows

Francis Provencher · 2015-03-11

Foxit Products GIF Conversion - 'LZWMinimumCodeSize' Memory Corruption

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
foxitsoftware	enterprise_reader	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.6.1126"}`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.6.1126"}`
foxitsoftware	phantompdf	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.6.1126"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.