The swf_DefineLosslessBitsTagToImage function in lib/modules/swfbits.c in SWFTools 0.9.2 mishandles an uncompress failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) because of extractDefinitions in lib/readers/swf.c and fill_line_bitmap in lib/devices/render.c, as demonstrated by swfrender.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-09T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:35:19.904Z

Reserved: 2017-11-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16711

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-11-09T18:29:00.187

Modified: 2017-11-27T12:58:54.087

Link: CVE-2017-16711

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