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
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T11:15:59.912Z

Reserved: 2018-10-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-18586

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-23T02:29:00.700

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:12.647

Link: CVE-2018-18586

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-10-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18586 - Bugzilla

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