PT-2018-16839 · Libming · Libming

Youwei1988 · Published 2018-01-05 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-5251

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libming version 0.4.8

Description The issue is caused by an integer signedness error vulnerability, specifically a left shift of a negative value, in the readSBits function located in util/read.c. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service by using a crafted swf file.

Recommendations For libming version 0.4.8, consider applying a patch to fix the integer signedness error in the readSBits function to prevent denial of service attacks via crafted swf files. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-681

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5251

DLA-1305-1

MGASA-2018-0212

Affected Products

Libming

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/97 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5251 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5251 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5251 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0212.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5251 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5251 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0212 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22815 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00008.html · Note