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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1176-1 ming -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

18 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

ming

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9988, CVE-2017-9989, CVE-2017-11733.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming:

• CVE-2017-9988

  NULL pointer dereference in the readEncUInt30 function (util/read.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

• CVE-2017-9989

  NULL pointer dereference in the outputABC_STRING_INFO function (util/outputtxt.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

• CVE-2017-11733

  NULL pointer dereference in the stackswap function (util/decompile.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.4.4-1.1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming packages.

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