| Name | CVE-2017-8420 |
| 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). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| swftools (PTS) | jessie | 0.9.2+git20130725-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 0.9.2+git20130725-4.1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| swftools | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
No actionable information, just a crash report against a four year old release
https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/41