CVE-2016-8875: Foxitsoftware Phantompdf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ConvertToPDF plugin in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows, when the gflags app is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted TIFF image, aka "Data from Faulting Address is used as one or more arguments in a subsequent Function Call starting at ConvertToPDF_x86!CreateFXPDFConvertor."

Affected products

• Foxitsoftware Phantompdf: up to and including 8.0.5
• Foxitsoftware Reader: up to and including 8.0.5

Published 2016-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.