CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9988
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The readEncUInt30 function in util/read.c in libming 0.4.8 mishandles memory allocation. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) attack against parser.c.
Affected configurations
• libming libming 0.4.8
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/85 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/85 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24 Third Party Advisory