CVE-2005-3318 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-3318

Buffer overflow in the _chm_decompress_block function in CHM lib (chmlib)...

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in the _chm_decompress_block function in CHM lib (chmlib) before 0.37, as used in products such as KchmViewer, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2930.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

chm lib
Vulnerable Versions:
0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.31, 0.32, 0.33, 0.35, 0.36

Timeline

Official Publish: October 27th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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