Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title SWFTools: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201204-05 First vendor Publication 2012-04-17
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2012-04-17
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A heap-based buffer overflow in SWFTools could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

SWFTools is a collection of SWF manipulation and generation utilities written by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm.

Description

Integer overflow errors in the "getPNG()" function in png.c and the
"jpeg_load()" function in jpeg.c could cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PNG or JPEG file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo discontinued support for SWFTools. We recommend that users unmerge swftools:
# emerge --unmerge "media-gfx/swftools"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-1516 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1516

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-05.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-05.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-04-30 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201204-05 (SWFTools)
File : nvt/glsa_201204_05.nasl
2010-08-19 Name : SWFTools Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
File : nvt/gb_swftools_mult_int_overflow_vuln_lin.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
67147 SWFTools lib/jpeg.c jpeg_load() Function Overflow
67146 SWFTools lib/png.c getPNG() Function Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-06-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201204-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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