Out-of-bounds Read Affecting swftools package, versions [,0.9.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SWFTOOLS-2381946
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2017

CVE-2017-8401  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for swftools.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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