Bug 1610934 – CVE-2018-14680 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM chunk number validity checks

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Bug 1610934 - (CVE-2018-14680) CVE-2018-14680 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM chunk number validity checks

Summary:	CVE-2018-14680 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM chunk number validity c...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-14680

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1610936 1610937 1610938 1611552
Blocks:	1610945
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Reported:	2018-08-01 12:27 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-10-30 03:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libmspack 0.7alpha
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3327	None	None	None	2018-10-30 03:59 EDT

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-08-01 12:27:17 EDT

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. It does not reject blank CHM filenames.


References:
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/28/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904801

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/kyz/libmspack/commit/72e70a921f0f07fee748aec2274b30784e1d312a

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-08-01 12:28:12 EDT

Created libmspack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1610938]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1610936]

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2018-08-02 06:38:46 EDT

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of libmspack as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 03:59:41 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3327 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3327

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