Upstream information

CVE-2018-18586 at MITRE

Description

** DISPUTED ** 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1113040

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Leap 42.3
  • libmspack >= 0.5-8.3.1
  • libmspack-debugsource >= 0.5-8.3.1
  • libmspack-devel >= 0.5-8.3.1
  • libmspack0 >= 0.5-8.3.1
  • libmspack0-32bit >= 0.5-8.3.1
  • libmspack0-debuginfo >= 0.5-8.3.1
  • libmspack0-debuginfo-32bit >= 0.5-8.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2018-1329

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s) Source package State
CaaS Platform 1.0 libmspack Not affected
CaaS Platform 2.0 libmspack Not affected
CaaS Platform 3.0 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 libmspack In progress
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 libmspack In progress
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 GA libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 11 SP4 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 SP3 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 SP4 libmspack In progress
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA LTSS libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 LTSS libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 LTSS libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 libmspack In progress
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 GA libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 libmspack Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 libmspack In progress