Updated swftools package fixes security vulnerability
Publication date: 07 Aug 2017Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-8400
Description
In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds write of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c. 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 (CVE-2017-8400).
References
SRPMS
5/core
- swftools-0.9.2-7.1.mga5