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CVE-2017-9988
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2017-06-28 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-476
Description
The readEncUInt30 function in util/read.c in libming 0.4.8 mishandles memory allocation. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) attack against parser.c.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 7.0
- Libming: 0.4.8
References
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/85
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/85
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24
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