CVE-2017-8420

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Published 2017-07-05 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

4.3

VIR risk

6.5

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).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
swftools	swftools	`2013-04-09-1007`

References

https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.