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CVE-2018-6358

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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: 2018-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

The printDefineFont2 function (util/listfdb.c) in libming through 0.4.8 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted FDB file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Libming: through 0.4.8

References

• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/104
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24
• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/104
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24

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