CVE-2017-8401: Swftools

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds read of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:724. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS.

Affected products

• Swftools Swftools: up to and including 0.9.2

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