VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8879

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Published 2016-10-31 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The thumbnail shell extension plugin (FoxitThumbnailHndlr_x86.dll) in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) via a crafted JPEG2000 image embedded in a PDF document, aka an "Exploitable - Heap Corruption" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
foxitsoftwarephantompdf{"endIncluding":"8.0.5"}
foxitsoftwarereader{"endIncluding":"8.0.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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