PT-2017-14564
CVE-2017-16793
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Published
2017-11-12
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Updated
2017-11-27
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
SWFTools version 0.9.2
Description
The issue is related to the wav convert2mono function in lib/wav.c, which does not properly validate WAV data. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted file, potentially leading to a denial of service due to incorrect malloc and heap-based buffer overflow, or possibly having other unspecified impacts.
Recommendations
For SWFTools version 0.9.2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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