Use After Free Affecting swftools package, versions <0.9.2+ds1-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.79% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SWFTOOLS-373258
  • published10 May 2017
  • disclosed10 May 2017

Introduced: 10 May 2017

CVE-2017-7698  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 swftools to version 0.9.2+ds1-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream swftools package and not the swftools package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A Use After Free in the pdf2swf part of swftools 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document, possibly a consequence of an error in Gfx.cc in Xpdf 3.02.