CVE-2017-16898: Libming

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The printMP3Headers function in util/listmp3.c in libming v0.4.8 or earlier is vulnerable to a global buffer overflow, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9264.

Affected products

• Libming Libming: up to and including 0.4.8

Published 2017-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.