CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-8401.md

CVE-2017-8401

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/14
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/14

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example