CVE-2021-42196

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in swftools through 20201222. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function traits_parse() located in abc.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Affected products

swftools: through 2020-12-22

References

https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/172
https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/172

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