{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8420","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).","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:18Z","published":"2017-07-05T20:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-8420"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8420"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8420"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"swftools","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/swftools@0.9.2+git20130725-4.1~build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["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"}},{"package":{"name":"swftools","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/swftools@0.9.2+git20130725-4.1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["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"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}