What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-16898

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The printMP3Headers function in util/listmp3.c in libming v0.4.8 or earlier is vulnerable to a global buffer overflow, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9264.

Affected products

• Libming: through 0.4.8

References

• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/75
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00014.html
• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/75
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00014.html

Get alerted when CVE-2017-16898 or the next vulnerability affects your stack