Security Advisory

CVE-2022-42418

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-01-26 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-03-31 17:39:42
Assigner zdi
State PUBLISHED

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of PDF-XChange Editor. 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 TIF files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied value prior to dereferencing it as a pointer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-18677.