CVE-2018-5251

medium

Description

In libming 0.4.8, there is an integer signedness error vulnerability (left shift of a negative value) in the readSBits function (util/read.c). Remote attackers can leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted swf file.

References

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00008.html

https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/97

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-01-05

Updated: 2019-10-03

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