{"id":7254,"date":"2018-10-02T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2021-11-30T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:58:27","slug":"security-update-for-foxit-pdf-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/10\/02\/security-update-for-foxit-pdf-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Security update for Foxit PDF Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"PDF\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PDF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PDF_thumb.jpg\" width=\"52\" align=\"left\" height=\"52\"><\/a>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/sicherheitsupdate-fr-foxit-pdf-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]In addition to a security update for Adobe's PDF tools (see Adobe Acrobat Security Update (October 2018)), Foxit also released a security update for it's PDF reader. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I became aware of this via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/security-update-for-foxit-pdf-reader-fixes-118-vulnerabilities\/\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>, but the manufacturer has now published a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191011013900\/https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/support\/security-bulletins.php\">Foxit Security Bulletin<\/a> with details. New version of Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF were released last Friday, to fix 116 vulnerabilities, 18 alone were discovered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/2018\/10\/foxit-pdf-reader-multiple-vulnerabilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cisco Talos security researchers<\/a>. Details about the respective vulnerabilities can also be found there. For some of the vulnerabilities, a visit to a website is enough to exploit them.<\/p>\n<p>Foxit recommends updating the Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF to version 9.3. The Foxit PDF Reader 9.3 can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191212143916\/https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and the Foxit PhantomPDF <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191212143916\/https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. It is strongly recommended that all users install this update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<\/strong><br \/>Adobe Acrobat Security Update (October 2018)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/10\/02\/security-update-for-foxit-pdf-reader\/\">Security update for Foxit PDF Reader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]In addition to a security update for Adobe's PDF tools (see Adobe Acrobat Security Update (October 2018)), Foxit also released a security update for it's PDF reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,1547,22],"tags":[968,69,195],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","category-update","tag-pdf","tag-security","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}