This issue has been resolved by updating to revision a6e322d6. A remote unauthenticated attacker can Exploit a vulnerability in the GIF to SWF conversion tool to execute arbitrary code. This can be accomplished by convincing the user to visit a specially crafted website. This issue has been resolved by updating to revision a6e322d6. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability by tricking the user to visit a malicious website. The update will prevent the conversion from taking place when the user visits a specially crafted website. - CVE-2018-7584 How to Update? The latest version of swftools is 1.7.2. To update, run the following command in the terminal: sudo apt-get install software-properties-essentials swig If you are using a distro that does not have the swig package available, you can install it using the following command in the terminal: sudo apt-get install libswig-perl
Dependencies
The following packages are needed for swftools to work: libswig-perl, libimage-exiftool-perl and libswig-java.
To update, run the following command in the terminal:
Timeline
Published on: 09/21/2022 00:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 09/22/2022 13:08:00 UTC