CVE-2022-35093 — SWFTools commit 772e55a2 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via

SWFTools commit 772e55a2 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via DCTStream::transformDataUnit at /xpdf/Stream.cc.

01What is this vulnerability?

SWFTools commit 772e55a2 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via DCTStream::transformDataUnit at /xpdf/Stream.cc.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-23T17:11:02.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-23T14:52:26.133Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/182
• github.com — https://github.com/Cvjark/Poc/blob/main/swftools/pdf2swf/CVE-2022-35093.md