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.

EPSS: 0.015 (72.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Libming — versions 0.4.8
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

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

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.