Advisories » MGASA-2017-0245

Updated swftools package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 07 Aug 2017
Modification date: 07 Aug 2017
Type: 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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20846
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-05/msg00034.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8400

SRPMS

5/core

• swftools-0.9.2-7.1.mga5