Vigil@nce - swftools: two vulnerabilities
July 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of swftools.
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 11/05/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in swftools.
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow, in order to trigger a
denial of service, and possibly to run code. [severity:2/4;
CVE-2017-8400]
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address, in order to
trigger a denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2017-8401]
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