CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-2659

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the LZX decompression function of CHM Lib (chmlib) version 0.35, used in products such as KchmViewer. The impact and attack vectors are unknown.

Risk Assessment

The risk to the organization includes potential remote code execution or system crashes through processing specially crafted CHM files, which could compromise data confidentiality, integrity, or availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the chmlib library to the latest available version that fixes this vulnerability, and to restrict processing of CHM files from untrusted sources.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in the LZX decompression in CHM Lib (chmlib) 0.35, as used in products such as KchmViewer, has unknown impact and attack vectors.

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