CVE-2018-5294: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In libming 0.4.8, there is an integer overflow (caused by an out-of-range left shift) in the readUInt32 function (util/read.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted swf file.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
  • Libming Libming: version 0.4.8 only

Published 2018-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.