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CVE-2017-9989

• 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

util/outputtxt.c in libming 0.4.8 mishandles memory allocation. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) attack.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Libming: 0.4.8

References

• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/86
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24
• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/86
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24

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