NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package swftools  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-SWFTOOLS-373279
  • published7 Jul 2017
  • disclosed7 Jul 2017

Introduced: 7 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream swftools package and not the swftools package as distributed by Debian.

When SWFTools 0.9.2 processes a crafted file in swfc, it can lead to a NULL Pointer Dereference in the dict_lookup() function in lib/q.c.