CVE-2017-8420

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2017-8420 · Published 05/07/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-8420 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting swftools (swftools).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.88%, higher than 59.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
swftools swftools	`= 2013-04-09-1007`	No fix yet

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).

References

wlinzi/security_advisories · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

swftools

= 2013-04-09-1007

No fix yet

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