Medium
Security advisory
In libming 0.4.8, a memory exhaustion vulnerability exist in the function cws2fws in util/main.c. Remote attackers could launch denial of service attacks by submitting a crafted SWF file that exploits this vulnerability.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-44590
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In libming 0.4.8, a memory exhaustion vulnerability exist in the function cws2fws in util/main.c. Remote attackers could launch denial of service attacks by submitting a crafted SWF file that exploits this vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2021-44590
Complete source record
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