CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16711

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-11-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

The swf_DefineLosslessBitsTagToImage function in lib/modules/swfbits.c in SWFTools 0.9.2 mishandles an uncompress failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) because of extractDefinitions in lib/readers/swf.c and fill_line_bitmap in lib/devices/render.c, as demonstrated by swfrender.

Affected configurations

• swftools swftools 0.9.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References