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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-995-1 swftools -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

20 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

swftools

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8400, CVE-2017-8401.

More information:

• CVE-2017-8400

  In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds write of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:755. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS; it might cause arbitrary code execution.

• CVE-2017-8401

  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.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.2+ds1-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your swftools packages.

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