“There are several bugs that could result in remote code execution ,” Dustin Childs, manager at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), told Threatpost. In addition to millions users for its branded software, major corporations as Amazon, Google,and Microsoft license Foxit Software technology, opening up its threat landscape even more. PhantomPDF, meanwhile, enables users to convert different file formats to PDF. Foxit Reader is popular PDF software – with a user base of over 500 million for its free version – that provides tools for creating, signing and securing PDF files. Overall, Foxit Software patched flaws tied to 20 CVEs in Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF (versions 9.1 and earlier) for Windows.

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