CVE-2018-14679

Public on 2018-07-28
Modified on 2019-01-25
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).
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 clamav 2019-01-09 ALAS-2019-1146 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libmspack 2019-01-23 ALAS2-2019-1152 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H