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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2024-24149

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A memory leak issue discovered in parseSWF_GLYPHENTRY in libming v0.4.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SWF file.

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

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published