SWFTools Font2SWF TTF File Handling DoS Vulnerability

CVE-2017-8420 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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).

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