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CVE-2017-8420

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

SWFTools 2013-04-09-1007 on Windows has a "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at image00000000_00400000+0x0000000000003e71" issue. This issue can be triggered by a malformed TTF file that is mishandled by font2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).

Affected products

• swftools: 2013-04-09-1007

References

• https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420
• https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420

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