CVE-2018-5294

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In libming 0.4.8, there is an integer overflow (caused by an out-of-range left shift) in the readUInt32 function (util/read.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted swf file.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Libming: 0.4.8

References

https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/98
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00008.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24
https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/98
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00008.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24

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