CVE-2017-8400

2022-10-0316:23:06

mitre

www.cve.org

swftools 0.9.2

png_load

out-of-bounds write

vulnerability

png file

dos

code execution

8.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

68.0%

JSON

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.