Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-42198 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Swftools

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

swftools

CWE-476

NVD

Published: 2022-06-02

Updated: 2022-06-08

Summary

An issue was discovered in swftools through 20201222. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function swf_GetBits() located in rfxswf.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Swftools Swftools Swftools - Swftools Swftools 0.0.1 Swftools Swftools 0.0.2 Swftools Swftools 0.1.0 Swftools Swftools 0.1.1 Swftools Swftools 0.1.2 Swftools Swftools 0.2.0 Swftools Swftools 0.2.1 Swftools Swftools 0.2.2 Swftools Swftools 0.2.3 Swftools Swftools 0.3.0 Swftools Swftools 0.3.1 Swftools Swftools 0.4.0 Swftools Swftools 0.4.1 Swftools Swftools 0.4.2 Swftools Swftools 0.4.3 Swftools Swftools 0.4.4 Swftools Swftools 0.5.0 Swftools Swftools 0.5.1 Swftools Swftools 0.6.0 Swftools Swftools 0.6.1 Swftools Swftools 0.6.2 Swftools Swftools 0.6.3 Swftools Swftools 0.7.0 Swftools Swftools 0.8.0 Swftools Swftools 0.8.1 Swftools Swftools 0.9.0 Swftools Swftools 0.9.1 Swftools Swftools 0.9.2 Swftools Swftools 2013-04-09-1007 Swftools Swftools 2020-12-22	31

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

References

https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/168