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CVE-2017-8401

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: yes
• Published: 2017-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds read of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:724. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS.

Affected products

• swftools: through 0.9.2

References

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/14
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/14

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