Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ming  (opens in a new tab)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-1153279
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed7 Feb 2019

Introduced: 7 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-7582  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (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.

The readBytes function in util/read.c in libming through 0.4.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted swf file that triggers a memory allocation failure.