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CVE-2018-7871

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the getName function of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

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/120
• 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/120
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html

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