Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2023· Updated Mar 31, 2025
CVE-2022-42405
CVE-2022-42405
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 EMF files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-18367.
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Affected products
2- Range: 9.4.362.0
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