CVE-2005-3318

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Jed Wing Chm Lib: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.31, 0.32, 0.33 (+2)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0536.html
http://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17325
http://secunia.com/advisories/17480
http://secunia.com/advisories/17775
http://secunia.com/advisories/17776
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-23.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/20335
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15211
http://www.sven-tantau.de/public_files/chmlib/chmlib_20051126.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2207

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