Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16711

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-09 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:35:19
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The swf_DefineLosslessBitsTagToImage function in lib/modules/swfbits.c in SWFTools 0.9.2 mishandles an uncompress failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) because of extractDefinitions in lib/readers/swf.c and fill_line_bitmap in lib/devices/render.c, as demonstrated by swfrender.