CVE-2018-6358 (GCVE-0-2018-6358)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-27 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:01
VLAI
Summary
The printDefineFont2 function (util/listfdb.c) in libming through 0.4.8 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted FDB file.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/104 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2018-01-27 00:00
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