What is CVE-2018-7868?

CVE-2018-7868 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-7868?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Libming

CVE-2018-7868

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the getName function of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT8 data. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-03-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Libming — versions 0.4.8
Debian Linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/libming/libming/issues/113 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7868?: CVE-2018-7868 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-7868?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.