Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ming  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-MING-1129933
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed9 Jan 2020

Introduced: 9 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-6628  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ming package and not the ming package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Ming (aka libming) 0.4.8 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function decompile_SWITCH() in decompile.c.