CVE-2016-8879: Foxitsoftware Phantompdf

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.