Directory Traversal Vulnerability in chmextract.c

CVE-2018-18586 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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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