Bug 1532549 (CVE-2018-5294)

Summary: CVE-2018-5294 ming: Integer overflow in the readUInt32function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-01-09 09:59:56 UTC
In libming 0.4.8, there is an integer overflow (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.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/98

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-01-09 10:00:40 UTC
Created ming tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1520747]