CVE-2017-8420: Swftools

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SWFTools 2013-04-09-1007 on Windows has a "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at image00000000_00400000+0x0000000000003e71" issue. This issue can be triggered by a malformed TTF file that is mishandled by font2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).

Affected products

• Swftools Swftools: version 2013-04-09-1007 only

Published 2017-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.