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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0014 Critical: Htmldoc Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 15, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2022-0015 patches gimp to fix critical vulnerabilities, improving stability in the impacted versions.
Buffer overflow vulnerability in htmldoc before 1.9.12, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted BMP image to image_load_bmp

Summary

Buffer overflow vulnerability in htmldoc before 1.9.12, allows attackersto cause a denial of service via a crafted BMP image to image_load_bmp. (CVE-2021-40985)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29806

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-December/009935.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40985

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update buffer overflow htmldoc Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/htmldoc-1.9.8-1.3.mga8

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 15 Jan 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0014.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-40985

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update buffer overflow htmldoc Mageia

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