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A\nCrafted input will lead to a denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-7867)\n\nThere is a heap-based buffer over-read in the getName function of\nutil/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT8 data. A Crafted input will\nlead to a denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-7868)\n\nAn invalid memory address dereference was discovered in getString in\nutil/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. The vulnerability\ncauses a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial\nof service. (CVE-2018-7870)\n\nThere is a heap-based buffer over-read in the getName function of\nutil/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. A crafted input\nwill lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.\n(CVE-2018-7871)\n\nAn invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the function\ngetName in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT16 data. The vulnerability causes a\nsegmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of\nservice. (CVE-2018-7872)\n\nThere is a heap-based buffer over-read in the getString function of\nutil/decompile.c in libming 0.4.8 for CONSTANT8 data. A Crafted input\nwill lead to a denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-7875)\n\nThe pushdup function in util/decompile.c in libming through 0.4.8 does\nnot recognize the need for ActionPushDuplicate to perform a deep copy\nwhen a String is at the top of the stack, making the library vulnerable\nto a util/decompile.c getName NULL pointer dereference, which may allow\nattackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SWF file.\n(CVE-2018-9165)\n","status":"published","published":"2019-04-10T21:25:19Z","modified":"2026-04-16T04:43:45.708501058Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:40.793816Z"}]}}