vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-8420): swftools vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 5, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

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).

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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