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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2018-7872

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the function getName in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published