CVE-2018-7872: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

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

Published 2018-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.