First published: Thu Jan 26 2023(Updated: )
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of PDF-XChange Editor. 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 parsing of PDF files. Crafted data in a PDF file can trigger a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-18324.
Credit: zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Tracker-software Pdf-xchange Editor | <9.5.366.0 | |
PDF-XChange PDF-XChange Editor |
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The vulnerability ID for this PDF-XChange Editor vulnerability is CVE-2022-42412.
The severity of CVE-2022-42412 is medium with a severity value of 5.5.
Remote attackers can exploit CVE-2022-42412 by tricking a user into visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file.
The PDF-XChange Editor versions up to exclusive 9.5.366.0 are affected by CVE-2022-42412.
To fix the PDF-XChange Editor vulnerability, update to a version that is not affected by CVE-2022-42412.