Secunia Research: SWFTools Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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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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