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CVE-2017-16711

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The swf_DefineLosslessBitsTagToImage function in lib/modules/swfbits.c in SWFTools 0.9.2 mishandles an uncompress failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) because of extractDefinitions in lib/readers/swf.c and fill_line_bitmap in lib/devices/render.c, as demonstrated by swfrender.

Affected products

• swftools: 0.9.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101797
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/46
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101797
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/46

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