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CVE-2017-8400

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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:755. 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.

Affected products

• swftools: through 0.9.2

References

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/13
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/13

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