CVE-2018-7872

MEDIUM

libming 0.4.8 - Denial of Service via Invalid Memory Address Dereference in getName Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the function getName in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892260
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/114

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0152
EPSS Percentile 71.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
libming/libming 0.4.8
Published Mar 08, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026