vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8782: ming - security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 31, 2017
Added
Jun 6, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ming
Title
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