CVE-2018-7873 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-7873?

CVE-2018-7873 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the getString function of util/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for INTEGER data. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7873?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Libming Libming.

How do I fix CVE-2018-7873?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-7873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f639-mr7m-wrj5, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7873.