Directory Traversal Affecting libmspack-devel package, versions <0.6-3.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.28% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-LIBMSPACKDEVEL-2649000
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed13 Jan 2022

Introduced: 13 Jan 2022

CVE-2018-18586  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 libmspack-devel to version 0.6-3.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmspack-devel package and not the libmspack-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

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