{"id":"CVE-2018-14290","aliases":["EUVD-2018-6212","GHSA-5fqg-pfvv-qfhf"],"status":"published","title":"This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations...","description":"This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.0.1.5096. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of PDF documents. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process. 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