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CVE-2017-16793

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2017-11-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The wav_convert2mono function in lib/wav.c in SWFTools 0.9.2 does not properly validate WAV data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect malloc and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Affected products

• swftools: 0.9.2

References

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/47
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/47

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