Resource exhaustion in libming - CVE-2018-13251
Published: July 5, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36983
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-2018-13251
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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.
In libming 0.4.8, there is an excessive memory allocation attempt in the readBytes function of the util/read.c file, related to parseSWF_DEFINEBITSJPEG2. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted swf file.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13251
Install update from vendor's website.