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.