PT-2024-12649 · Swftools · Swftools

Hee-Won · Published 2024-01-11 · Updated 2024-01-22 · CVE-2023-37644

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SWFTools version 0.9.2

Description The issue allows attackers to trigger a large memory-allocation attempt via a crafted document, as demonstrated by pdf2swf. This occurs in the png read chunk function in lib/png.c.

Recommendations For SWFTools version 0.9.2, consider disabling the png read chunk function in lib/png.c as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to the pdf2swf tool to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-37644

Affected Products

Swftools

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/202 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-37644 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-37644 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-37644 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-37644 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-37644 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1745349260038607111 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/67013 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/67905 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/67794 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/RedPacketSec/status/1749372995385119114 · Twitter Post