CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-28458

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 11, 2024 | Modified: Sep 06, 2024

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28458
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in swfdump in swftools 0.9.2 allows attackers to crash the appliation via the function compileSWFActionCode in action/actioncompiler.c.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/keepinggg/poc/blob/main/poc_of_swfc

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