CVE-2017-8400: Swftools

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds write of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:755. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS; it might cause arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Swftools Swftools: up to and including 0.9.2

Published 2017-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.