VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-9988
A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) attack against parser.c.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.04%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.04%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The readEncUInt30 function in util/read.c in libming 0.4.8 mishandles memory allocation. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) attack against parser.c.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.04% probability · 80th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- libming/libming · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/85Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/85Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.