CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8420
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-05
- 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-119
Description
SWFTools 2013-04-09-1007 on Windows has a "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at image00000000_00400000+0x0000000000003e71" issue. This issue can be triggered by a malformed TTF file that is mishandled by font2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).
Affected configurations
• swftools swftools 2013-04-09-1007
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420 Third Party Advisory