A vulnerability was found in libming 0.4.8 (Programming Tool Software). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function strlenext of the file decompile.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

libming 0.4.8 has a NULL pointer dereference in the strlenext function of the decompile.c file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-7874.

The bug was discovered 09/21/2018. The weakness was shared 12/24/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-20428 since 12/23/2018. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 94 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-128365, VDB-128363, VDB-128362 and VDB-128361 are related to this item. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• libming

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• 0.4.8

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• open-source

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