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A Crafted input\nwill lead to a denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-7873)\n\nIn libming 0.4.8, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the\nfunction parseSWF_ACTIONRECORD in util/parser.c, which allows remote\nattackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.\n(CVE-2018-7876)\n\nIn libming 0.4.8, there is a use-after-free in the decompileJUMP function\nof the decompile.c file. (CVE-2018-9009)\n\nlibming 0.4.8 has a NULL pointer dereference in the getInt function of the\ndecompile.c file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to\ncause a denial of service via a crafted swf file. (CVE-2018-9132)\n","status":"published","published":"2020-01-11T23:52:04Z","modified":"2026-04-16T04:42:53.38289484Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:41.151324Z"}]}}