CVE-2018-18586

Published October 23rd, 2018

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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

kyz/libmspack

A library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats, CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, KWAJ and SZDD.

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