Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-8420
CVE-2017-8420
Description
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).
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420nvdThird Party Advisory
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