Buffer overflow in libming - CVE-2018-15870
Published: August 25, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31223
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15870
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libming.org
Affected software:
libming
libming
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in decompileGETVARIABLE in libming 0.4.8 before 2018-03-12. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-15870
Install update from vendor's website.