Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-7872

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.

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Affected products

Libming/Libming3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:libming:libming:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:libming:libming:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <=0.4.8
- (no CPE)range: ming-0_3_0, ming-0_3_beta2, ming-0_4_0_beta3, …
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

github.com/libming/libming/issues/114nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory

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