Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package swftools  (opens in a new tab)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-534237
  • 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)

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.

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.