Improper Input Validation Affecting swftools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SWFTOOLS-341296
  • published7 Jul 2017
  • disclosed7 Jul 2017

Introduced: 7 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 swftools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream swftools package and not the swftools package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

When SWFTools 0.9.2 processes a crafted file in wav2swf, it can lead to a Segmentation Violation in the wav_convert2mono() function in lib/wav.c.