CVE-2024-22920

Summary

CVE-2024-22920 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting swftools version 0.9.2. This issue involves a heap-use-after-free flaw located in the function bufferWriteData within the swftools/lib/action/compile.c file. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by writing data to a previously freed memory location, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or denial of service. Users of swftools are urged to upgrade to a patched version to mitigate this risk.

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