Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ming  (opens in a new tab)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-1174273
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed23 Mar 2018

Introduced: 23 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8963  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (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.

In libming 0.4.8, the decompileGETVARIABLE function of decompile.c has a use-after-free. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted swf file.