🛡️ CVE-2025-29487 — libming

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-400 NVD

7.5

CVSS Score

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Description

An out-of-memory error in the parseABC_STRING_INFO function of libming v0.4.8 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) due to allocator exhaustion.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-29487 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2025-29487 is recorded against 1 package.

libming

Timeline and source

Published on 27 March 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-2025-29487 on other distributions

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

Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.5

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

CWE CWE-400

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-03-27

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
libming	—	—

References

Exploit https://github.com/goodmow/PoC/blob/main/libming/libming-fuzz6.readme

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/330

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