CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8401

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-05-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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-125

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• swftools swftools (<= 0.9.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References