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CVE-2017-16868

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In SWFTools 0.9.2, the wav_convert2mono function in lib/wav.c does not properly restrict a multiplication within a malloc call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted WAV file.

Affected products

• swftools: 0.9.2

References

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/52
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/52

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