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The Foxit Cloud Update Service (FoxitCloudUpdateService) in Foxit Reader 6.1 through 6.2.x and 7.x before 7.2.2, when an update to the Cloud plugin is available, allows local users to gain privileges by writing crafted data to a shared memory region, which triggers memory corruption

Published Apr 13, 2016

Description

The Foxit Cloud Update Service (FoxitCloudUpdateService) in Foxit Reader 6.1 through 6.2.x and 7.x before 7.2.2, when an update to the Cloud plugin is available, allows local users to gain privileges by writing crafted data to a shared memory region, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 13, 2016
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Apr 13, 2016
Link CVE-2015-8843
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2015-8843
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2015-8843