vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8401: swftools -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 1, 2017
Added
Jun 20, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-swftools
Title
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