Use After Free Affecting swftools package, versions [,0.9.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.79% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SWFTOOLS-2381923
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 May 2017

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for swftools.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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.

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