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CVE-2018-7873

• 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: yes
• Published: 2018-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the getString function of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for INTEGER data. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

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/111
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00017.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47KZ5RYWQMBN5DVDITBVRDNDCSFNBJ3V/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CQNIJH5EQV2D6KEFGY2467ZS4I7TZLXP/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBFCINUX3XXAPPH77OH6NKACBPFBQXXW/
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892260
• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/111
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00017.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47KZ5RYWQMBN5DVDITBVRDNDCSFNBJ3V/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CQNIJH5EQV2D6KEFGY2467ZS4I7TZLXP/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBFCINUX3XXAPPH77OH6NKACBPFBQXXW/

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