CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-40009

Use After Free

Published: Sep 20, 2022 | Modified: May 28, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

SWFTools commit 772e55a was discovered to contain a heap-use-after-free via the function grow_unicode at /lib/ttf.c.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Swftools Swftools 2021-12-16 (including) 2021-12-16 (including)
Swftools Ubuntu bionic *
Swftools Ubuntu trusty *
Swftools Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References