Out-of-bounds Read Affecting swftools package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Exploit maturity not defined.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SWFTOOLS-373221
- published1 May 2017
- disclosed1 May 2017
Introduced: 1 May 2017
CVE-2017-8401 (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.
In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds read of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:724. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS.