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CVE-2021-42198

• 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 swf_GetBits() located in rfxswf.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Affected products

• swftools: through 2020-12-22

References

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/168
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/168

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