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CVE-2021-38563 (GCVE-0-2021-38563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-11 21:16 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:44
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Foxit PDF Reader before 11.0.1 and PDF Editor before 11.0.1. It mishandles situations in which an array size (derived from a /Size entry) is smaller than the maximum indirect object number, and thus there is an attempted incorrect array access (leading to a NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds read or write).
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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