CVE-2016-4060 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4060?

CVE-2016-4060 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader, published on 22 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 7.3.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4060?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader, Foxitsoftware Phantompdf.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4060?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-4060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-4060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r5jp-8mpf-h3q2.