VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-7872
The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.47%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.47%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the function getName in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.
- 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
- 1.47% probability · 74th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- libming/libming · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892260Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/114Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892260Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/114Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.