Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37464

Input validation error in libming and Debian Linux - CVE-2018-7869

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

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37464

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7869

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

There is a memory leak triggered in the function dcinit of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8, which will lead to a denial of service attack.

libming
Debian Linux

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