What is CVE-2018-7874?

CVE-2018-7874 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 2018-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-7874?

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

Buffer overflow in Libming

CVE-2018-7874

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in strlenext in util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (65.8th 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-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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-2018-7874?: CVE-2018-7874 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 2018-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-7874?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.