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CVE-2005-3318

Published: Oct 27, 2005Updated: Apr 16, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUNVD-CWE-Other
5.1MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
3.8%
Top 11.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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 than CVE-2005-2930.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HAu:NC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:HAccess Complexity
High
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

Gentoo Foundation Inc.
oss-project·US
Gentoo LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
jed wing
individual-dev
chm libLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
and 1 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200511-23.xml
security.gentoo.org
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0536.html
archives.neohapsis.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/17480
secunia.com
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