CVE-2018-14679

MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.99%

libmspack - security update

Published: 7/28/2018Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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).

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/libmspackfrom 0, < 0.7.1_alpha-r0
Debian/libmspackfrom 0, < 0.7-1
Debian/libmspackfrom 0, < 0.5-1+deb8u2
Debian/libmspackfrom 0, < 0.5-1+deb9u2

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-14679
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14679