cve/2017/CVE-2017-8401.md

### [CVE-2017-8401](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8401)
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### Description

In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds read of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:724. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/14

#### Github
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example