Out-of-bounds read in libming - CVE-2018-20591
Published: December 30, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36259
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-2018-20591
CWE-ID: CWE-125
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.
A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in decompileJUMP function in util/decompile.c of libming v0.4.8. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by swftocxx.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20591
Install update from vendor's website.