What is CVE-2018-7872?

CVE-2018-7872 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-7872?

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

NULL pointer dereference in Libming

CVE-2018-7872

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.

EPSS: 0.015 (71.6th 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 — versions 0.4.8
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7872?: CVE-2018-7872 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libming, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-7872?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.