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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib_0.35-6sarge3.diff.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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chmlib/chmlib-bin_0.35-6sarge3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.