CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20426

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 24, 2018 | Modified: Jan 04, 2019

CVSS 3.x

8.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

6.8 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20426
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

libming 0.4.8 has a NULL pointer dereference in the newVar3 function of the decompile.c file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-7866.

Weakness

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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libming	Libming	0.4.8 (including)	0.4.8 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/162

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