CVE-2018-14679 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-14679

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha....

Vulnerability 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).

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libmspack, cabextract, ubuntu linux, debian linux, ansible tower, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation
Vulnerable Versions:
0.0.20060920, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 8.0, 9.0, 3.3, 7.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 28th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.