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Use After Free

CVE-2018-8806

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

In libming 0.4.8, there is a use-after-free in the decompileArithmeticOp function of decompile.c. Remote attackers could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted swf file.

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

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published