🛡️ CVE-2025-26306 — libming

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-401 NVD

6.5

CVSS Score

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Description

A memory leak has been identified in the readSizedString function in util/read.c of libming v0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-26306 is classified as CWE-401: Memory Leak. Allocated memory is never released, so long-running or repeated operations gradually exhaust it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-26306 is recorded against 1 package.

libming

Timeline and source

Published on 20 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com

CVE-2025-26306 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 6.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-401

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-02-20

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
libming	—	—

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/324

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