CVE-2018-18586 (GCVE-0-2018-18586)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-23 02:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:15
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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