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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1240-1 ming -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Jan 2018

Affected Packages:

ming

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-11732, CVE-2017-16883, CVE-2017-16898.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming:

• CVE-2017-11732

  heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the function dcputs (util/decompile.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SWF file.

• CVE-2017-16883

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

• CVE-2017-16898

  global buffer overflow vulnerability in the function printMP3Headers (util/listmp3.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SWF file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.4.4-1.1+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming packages.

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