PT-2017-14627 · Libming · Libming

Published 2017-11-20 · Updated 2018-04-30 · CVE-2017-16898

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libming versions prior to 0.4.8

Description The issue is related to a global buffer overflow in the printMP3Headers function, located in util/listmp3.c. This may allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.4.8, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16898

DLA-1240-1

MGASA-2018-0212

Affected Products

Libming

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16898 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0212.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16898 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0212 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/75 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22815 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00014.html · Note