Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1144-1 chmlib -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

07 Aug 2006

Affected Packages:

chmlib

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3178.

More information:

It was discovered that one of the utilities shipped with chmlib, a library for dealing with Microsoft CHM files, performs insufficient sanitising of filenames, which might lead to directory traversal.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.35-6sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.38-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chmlib-bin package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-dev_0.35-6sarge3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.