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Secunia Research 13/08/2010
- SWFTools Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* SWFTools 0.9.1
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash
files (SWF files)."
Product Link:
http://www.swftools.org/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in SWFTools, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) An integer overflow error within the "getPNG()" function in
lib/png.c can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via
specially crafted PNG images.
2) An integer overflow error within the "jpeg_load()" function in
lib/jpeg.c can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via
specially crafted JPEG images.
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5) Solution
Fixed in the GIT repository.
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6) Time Table
10/06/2010 - Vendor notified.
10/06/2010 - Vendor response.
13/08/2010 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2010-1516 for the vulnerabilities.
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-80/
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