Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package swftools  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1904-SWFTOOLS-533827
  • published12 Nov 2017
  • disclosed12 Nov 2017

Introduced: 12 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16796  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

In SWFTools 0.9.2, the png_load function in lib/png.c does not check the return value of a realloc call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an IDAT tag in a crafted PNG file.