CVE-2017-8420

NameCVE-2017-8420
DescriptionSWFTools 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).
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
swftoolssource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

No actionable information, just a crash report against a four year old release
https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/41

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