CVE-2018-18586

Medium

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

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.3

Exploit probability—

ProductKyzer Libmspack

PublishedOct 23, 2018

First seenOct 23, 2018

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
kyzer libmspack	0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7	—

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