CVE-2017-8420 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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).

Published: 2017-07-05

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:swftools:swftools:2013-04-09-1007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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No data available yet.

Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-17371	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).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00285.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows

Swftools Swftools

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-05T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.937Z

Reserved: 2017-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8420

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-05T20:29:02.983

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-8420

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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