PT-2017-17895 · Swftools+1 · Swftools+1

0Ca · Published 2017-05-10 · Updated 2018-01-03 · CVE-2017-7698

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 versions 0.9.2 and earlier

Description A Use After Free issue in the pdf2swf part of swftools allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document. This issue may be related to an error in Gfx.cc in Xpdf 3.02.

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

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7698

MGASA-2018-0052

Affected Products

Xpdf

Swftools

References · 7

• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/pull/19 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7698 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7698 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0052.html · Security Note
• https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/commit/c7747f4b10739bd365c3e79d153b99fbfac9a4ac · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22281 · Note