{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9988 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-9988 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 28 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-9988 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-9988 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 28 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9988 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9988/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9988/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-9988","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9988/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-9988","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-wm6x-77v8-ppg5","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9988"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"libming library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A crafted input triggers a NULL pointer dereference in libming, causing a remote denial of service.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"libming","vendor":"libming"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"The readEncUInt30 function in util/read.c in libming 0.4.8 mishandles memory allocation. 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