Advisories » MGASA-2018-0052

Updated swftools packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Jan 2018
Modification date: 03 Jan 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-7698

Description

A Use After Free in the pdf2swf part of swftools 0.9.2 and earlier allows
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document,
due to bundled code in Gfx.cc from Xpdf 3.02 (CVE-2017-7698).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22281
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/commit/c7747f4b10739bd365c3e79d153b99fbfac9a4ac
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7698

SRPMS

5/core

• swftools-0.9.2-7.2.mga5

6/core

• swftools-0.9.2-9.1.mga6