CVE-2017-8782

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8782
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8782.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8782
Downstream
Published
2017-05-31T04:29:00.227Z
Modified
2026-07-08T11:36:36.567928Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The readString function in util/read.c and util/old/read.c in libming 0.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that is mishandled by listswf, listaction, etc. This occurs because of an integer overflow that leads to a memory allocation error.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libming/libming

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libming/libming
Events
Introduced
b72cc2fda0e8b3792b7b3f7361fc3f917f269433
Last affected
b72cc2fda0e8b3792b7b3f7361fc3f917f269433
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libming:libming:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.4.8"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.4.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.4.8
Other
ming-0_4_8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8782.json"