vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-18586: libmspack -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 23, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

Solution

debian-upgrade-libmspack
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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