Published: 23/06/2006 Updated: 20/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Directory traversal vulnerability in extract_chmLib example program in CHM Lib (chmlib) prior to 0.38 allows remote malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files via a CHM archive containing files with a .. (dot dot) in their filename.

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It was discovered that one of the utilities shipped with chmlib, a library for dealing with Microsoft CHM files, performs insufficient sanitising of filenames, which might lead to directory traversal For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 035-6sarge3 For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fi ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/http://secunia.com/advisories/20734 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016343 http://www.osvdb.org/26636 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18511 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1144 http://secunia.com/advisories/21406 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2430 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27278 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-1144

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