Makers of popular PDF reader Foxit have patched 12 dangerous vulnerabilities that could have resulted in remote code execution. Some 400 million users run the flagship reader billed as an alternative to Adobe Reader. The dozen flaws are patched in Windows and Linux variants. Users would need to be conned into opening a malicious PDF with Foxit Reader or PhantomPDF in order to be compromised using the vulnerabilities.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
