Out-of-bounds read in libming and Debian Linux - CVE-2018-7868

 

Out-of-bounds read in libming and Debian Linux - CVE-2018-7868

Published: March 8, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37463
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-2018-7868
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: libming.org
Debian
Affected software:
libming
Debian Linux

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the getName function of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT8 data. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-7868

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources