CVE-2017-8401 (NVD)

2017-05-01

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.

Products Swftools
Type Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/14