CVE-2018-14679
MSPack CHM Uninitialized Data Dereference Denial of Service 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).
INFO
Published Date :
July 28, 2018, 11:29 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 3:49 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
2.8
Affected Products
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vulnerability.
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CVE-2018-14679 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/1 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041410 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3327 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 Added Reference https://bugs.debian.org/904802 Added Reference https://github.com/kyz/libmspack/commit/72e70a921f0f07fee748aec2274b30784e1d312a Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00007.html Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20 Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-1/ Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-2/ Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-3/ Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3789-2/ Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4260 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Apr. 26, 2021
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:cabextract:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 1.5 OR *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract_project:cabextract:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 1.5 -
CWE Remap by [email protected]
Aug. 24, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CWE CWE-682 CWE-193 -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 28, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3789-2/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3789-2/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3327 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3327 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20 Third Party Advisory Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Mar. 28, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 31, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3327 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 17, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3789-2/ [No Types Assigned] -
Reanalysis by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:libmspack_project:libmspack:0.6:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:libmspack_project:libmspack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 1.5 OR *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:cabextract:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 1.5 *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:libmspack:0.0.20060920:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:libmspack:0.3:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:libmspack:0.4:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:libmspack:0.5:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cabextract:libmspack:0.6:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4260 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4260 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-3/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-3/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00007.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/1 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://bugs.debian.org/904802 No Types Assigned https://bugs.debian.org/904802 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041410 No Types Assigned http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041410 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-1/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-2/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-2/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://github.com/kyz/libmspack/commit/72e70a921f0f07fee748aec2274b30784e1d312a No Types Assigned https://github.com/kyz/libmspack/commit/72e70a921f0f07fee748aec2274b30784e1d312a Patch, Third Party Advisory Added CWE CWE-682 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:libmspack_project:libmspack:0.6:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:libmspack_project:libmspack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 1.5 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 11, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-2/ [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 08, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00007.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 06, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041410 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 04, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4260 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-3/ [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 03, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3728-1/ [No Types Assigned]
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-14679 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-14679
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.88 }} -0.05%
score
0.82278
percentile