What is CVE-2018-7869?

CVE-2018-7869 is a high-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-7869?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libming

CVE-2018-7869

There is a memory leak triggered in the function dcinit of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8, which will lead to a denial of service attack.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.5% 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-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/libming/libming/issues/119 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7869?: CVE-2018-7869 is a high-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-7869?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.