CVE-2018-7870

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in getString in util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Libming: 0.4.8

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892260
https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/117
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892260
https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/117
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html

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