PT-2017-14605

CVE-2017-16868

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Published

2017-11-17

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Updated

2017-11-27

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CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SWFTools version 0.9.2
Description The issue arises from the wav convert2mono function in lib/wav.c, which fails to properly restrict a multiplication within a malloc call. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through an integer overflow and NULL pointer dereference by using a crafted WAV file.
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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