UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8420

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8420
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8420.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8420
Upstream
  • CVE-2017-8420
Published
2017-07-05T20:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:18Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / swftools

Package

Name
swftools
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swftools@0.9.2+git20130725-4.1~build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.2+git20130725-2
0.9.2+git20130725-2ubuntu1
0.9.2+git20130725-4
0.9.2+git20130725-4.1~build0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "swftools",
            "binary_version": "0.9.2+git20130725-4.1~build0.16.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8420.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / swftools

Package

Name
swftools
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swftools@0.9.2+git20130725-4.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.2+git20130725-4.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "swftools",
            "binary_version": "0.9.2+git20130725-4.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8420.json"