CVE-2017-9988

medium

Description

The readEncUInt30 function in util/read.c in libming 0.4.8 mishandles memory allocation. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) attack against parser.c.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00022.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-28

Updated: 2019-04-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium