The free Foxit PDF Reader is offered within the new model 2024.1 for Windows and macOS. There are additionally corresponding updates for the premium Foxit PDF Editor, one among the best PDF editors we’ve tested. Foxit Software has closed 50 safety vulnerabilities in each variations, most of that are categorized as excessive threat. There are at the moment no recognized assaults that will exploit one of many vulnerabilities.

According to Foxit Security Bulletins from March 5, all Reader variations as much as and together with 2023.3 are weak – for each Windows and macOS. In the case of Foxit PDF Editor, older variations of generations 13.x, 12.x, 11.x and 10.x are additionally affected. The majority of the vulnerabilities could be exploited with ready PDF recordsdata to inject and execute arbitrary code. Significantly fewer vulnerabilities have been found within the Mac variations than within the Windows software program. However, the danger potential continues to be excessive.

Foxit PDF Reader (previously Foxit Reader) is taken into account a relatively lean various to Adobe Acrobat Reader. As the vary of options of Foxit Reader has additionally continued to develop (partly attributable to plug-ins provided), that is solely true to a restricted extent: the obtain now contains greater than 140 MBytes. To shortly learn a easy PDF file, the PDF viewers now constructed into most net browsers (corresponding to Chrome, Edge, Firefox) are normally enough. The open-source Sumatra PDF can nonetheless be thought-about a extremely lean and moveable various: The obtain is barely just below 8 MBytes in measurement.

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Foxit PDF Editor (previously Foxit PhantomPDF) is a industrial software for creating and modifying PDF recordsdata that competes with Adobe Acrobat. The set up program for Foxit PDF Reader robotically installs a 14-day trial model of Foxit PDF Editor if you don’t explicitly deselect this in the course of the setup course of.

This article was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.