VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-8420
Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.88%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.88%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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).
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.88% probability · 57th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- swftools/swftools
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.