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MGASA-2022-0191 - Updated htmldoc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 May 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0191.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2022-27114

There is a vulnerability in htmldoc 1.9.16. In image_load_jpeg function
image.cxx when it calls malloc,'img->width' and 'img->height' they are
large enough to cause an integer overflow. So, the malloc function may
return a heap blosmaller than the expected size, and it will cause a
buffer overflow/Address boundary error in the jpeg_read_scanlines
function. (CVE-2022-27114)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30429
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3004
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-27114

SRPMS:
- 8/core/htmldoc-1.9.15-1.1.mga8

Mageia 2022-0191: htmldoc security update

There is a vulnerability in htmldoc 1.9.16

Summary

There is a vulnerability in htmldoc 1.9.16. In image_load_jpeg function image.cxx when it calls malloc,'img->width' and 'img->height' they are large enough to cause an integer overflow. So, the malloc function may return a heap blosmaller than the expected size, and it will cause a buffer overflow/Address boundary error in the jpeg_read_scanlines function. (CVE-2022-27114)