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Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0096 Critical: perl-HTML-StripScripts ReDoS Threat

mageia
Calendar Grey March 18, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2023-0096 releases perl-HTML-StripScripts fix to mitigate serious ReDoS threat, enhancing security of web applications.
The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes

Summary

The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes. (CVE-2023-24038)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31495

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2023/msg00028.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24038

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical perl module mageia redos html-stripscripts

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/perl-HTML-StripScripts-1.60.0-3.1.mga8

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Publication date: 18 Mar 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0096.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-24038

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical perl module mageia redos html-stripscripts

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