SWFTools Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

2010-08-19 / 2010-08-20
Risk: High
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CWE: CWE-189


CVSS Base Score: 9.3/10
Impact Subscore: 10/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Complete
Integrity impact: Complete
Availability impact: Complete

====================================================================== Secunia Research 13/08/2010 - SWFTools Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities - ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * SWFTools 0.9.1 NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Moderately critical Impact: System access Where: Remote ====================================================================== 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/ ====================================================================== 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. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Fixed in the GIT repository. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 10/06/2010 - Vendor notified. 10/06/2010 - Vendor response. 13/08/2010 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2010-1516 for the vulnerabilities. ====================================================================== 9) About Secunia Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence relevant to their specific system configuration: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory database as a service to the security community and private individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security. http://secunia.com/advisories/ Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the security and reliability of software in general: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below to see currently vacant positions: http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/ Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories: http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/ ====================================================================== 10) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-80/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/513102/100/0/threaded
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-80/
http://secunia.com/advisories/39970


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