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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1305-1 ming -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

ming

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-5251, CVE-2018-5294, CVE-2018-6315, CVE-2018-6359.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming:

• CVE-2018-5251

  Integer signedness error vulnerability (left shift of a negative value) in the readSBits function (util/read.c). Remote attackers can leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted swf file.

• CVE-2018-5294

  Integer overflow vulnerability (caused by an out-of-range left shift) in the readUInt32 function (util/read.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted swf file.

• CVE-2018-6315

  Integer overflow and resultant out-of-bounds read in the outputSWF_TEXT_RECORD function (util/outputscript.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted SWF file.

• CVE-2018-6359

  Use-after-free vulnerability in the decompileIF function (util/decompile.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted SWF file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.4-1.1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming packages.

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