8.8
CWE
787
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2017-8400

First published: Mon May 01 2017(Updated: )

In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds write of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:755. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS; it might cause arbitrary code execution.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Swftools Swftools<=0.9.2

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