PT-2017-14564 · Swftools · Swftools

Published 2017-11-12 · Updated 2017-11-27 · CVE-2017-16793

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SWFTools version 0.9.2

Description The issue is related to the wav convert2mono function in lib/wav.c, which does not properly validate WAV data. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted file, potentially leading to a denial of service due to incorrect malloc and heap-based buffer overflow, or possibly having other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For SWFTools version 0.9.2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16793

Affected Products

Swftools

References · 6

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16793 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16793 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16793 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16793 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16793 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/47 · Note