The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201904-24 (Ming: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Security fixes for: CVE-2017-8782, CVE-2017-9988, CVE-2017-9989, CVE-2017-11704, CVE-2017-11728, CVE-2017-11729, CVE-2017-11730, CVE-2017-11731, CVE-2017-11732, CVE-2017-11733, CVE-2017-11734, CVE-2017-16883, CVE-2017-16898, CVE-2018-5251, CVE-2018-5294, CVE-2018-6315, CVE-2018-6359

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming :

CVE-2018-5251

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.

CVE-2018-5294

Integer overflow vulnerability (caused by an out-of-range left shift) in the readUInt32 function (util/read.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted swf file. 

CVE-2018-6315

Integer overflow and resultant out-of-bounds read in the outputSWF_TEXT_RECORD function (util/outputscript.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted SWF file.

CVE-2018-6359

Use-after-free vulnerability in the decompileIF function (util/decompile.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted SWF file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.4-1.1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming packages.

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
124288	GLSA-201904-24 : Ming: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	4/25/2019	5/31/2024	high
108496	Fedora 27 : ming (2018-38a0e1e6f5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/21/2018	1/6/2021	high
108503	Fedora 26 : ming (2018-8be89d9ad6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/21/2018	1/6/2021	high
120460	Fedora 28 : ming (2018-5f31e1002a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/3/2019	7/5/2024	high
107277	Debian DLA-1305-1 : ming security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/12/2018	1/11/2021	high

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