CVE-2018-18586

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 23, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Oct 22, 2018

Description

chmextract.c in the chmextract sample program, as distributed with libmspack before 0.8alpha, does not protect against absolute/relative pathnames in CHM files, leading to Directory Traversal. NOTE: the vendor disputes that this is a libmspack vulnerability, because chmextract.c was only intended as a source-code example, not a supported application

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/kyz/libmspack/commit/7cadd489698be117c47efcadd742651594429e6d
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/22/1
https://bugs.debian.org/911639
GLSA-201903-20vendor-advisory

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