Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Foxit Reader with unknown details

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Affected Systems:
Foxit Reader 5.x
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 55150
Cve id: CVE-2012-4337

Foxit Reader is a small PDF document viewer and print program.

Foxit Reader 5.1.4.0104 and earlier versions have security vulnerabilities in the implementation of parsing PDF files, which can be exploited to corrupt the memory, execute arbitrary code and control the user system.

<* Source: John Leitch

Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/50359/
Http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-013
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Foxit
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.foxitsoft.com/wac/server_intro.php