FKIE_CVE-2018-14679
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-07-28 23:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:41
Severity
Summary
An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks, which could lead to denial of service (uninitialized data dereference and application crash).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cabextract | libmspack | 0.0.20060920 | |
| cabextract | libmspack | 0.3 | |
| cabextract | libmspack | 0.4 | |
| cabextract | libmspack | 0.5 | |
| cabextract | libmspack | 0.6 | |
| cabextract_project | cabextract | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| redhat | ansible_tower | 3.3 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | 7.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server | 7.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation | 7.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 |
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