What is CVE-2018-15870?

CVE-2018-15870 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-25.

How severe is CVE-2018-15870?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Libming

CVE-2018-15870

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in decompileGETVARIABLE in libming 0.4.8 before 2018-03-12. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (64.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Libming
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15870?: CVE-2018-15870 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-25.
How severe is CVE-2018-15870?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.