CVE-2005-3318
Buffer overflow in the _chm_decompress_block function in CHM lib (chmlib) before 0.37, as used in products such as KchmViewer, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability
02 Description
Buffer overflow in the _chm_decompress_block function in CHM lib (chmlib) before 0.37, as used in products such as KchmViewer, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-10-27 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-10-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f014b95fdb51295bdb53018518bc95353c34efac18b91bec21719d453efa1a10
05 Affected products
06 References
- archives.neohapsis.com20051026 chmlib exploitable buffer overflowhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0536.html
- secunia.com17480http://secunia.com/advisories/17480
- secunia.com17775http://secunia.com/advisories/17775
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-2207http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2207
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2005:025http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
- www.securityfocus.com15211http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15211
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comchmlib-chmdecompressblock-bo(22885)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22885
- www.osvdb.org20335http://www.osvdb.org/20335
- secunia.com17325http://secunia.com/advisories/17325
- secunia.com17776http://secunia.com/advisories/17776
- www.sven-tantau.dehttp://www.sven-tantau.de/public_files/chmlib/chmlib_20051126.txt
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200511-23http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-23.xml
- morte.jedrea.comhttp://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- chmlib Fixed in 0.37-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chmlib Fixed in 0.37-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chmlib Fixed in 0.37-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.