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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0882-1 Critical: htmldoc Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2021
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The recent htmldoc update addresses a significant buffer overflow vulnerability. This update includes comprehensive instructions and a detailed overview of the severity of the issue.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for htmldoc fixes the following issues:

htmldoc was updated to version 1.9.12:

* Fixed buffer-overflow CVE-2021-20308 ( boo#1184424 )

* Fixed a crash bug with "data:" URIs and EPUB output

* Fixed several other crash bugs

* Fixed JPEG error handling

* Fixed some minor issues

* Removed the bundled libjpeg, libpng, and zlib.

update to 1.9.11:

- Added high-resolution desktop icons for Linux.

- Updated the internal HTTP library to fix truncation of redirection URLs

- Fixed a regression in the handling of character entities for UTF-8 input

- The `--numbered` option did not work when the table-of-contents was

disabled

- Updated local zlib to v1.2.11.

- Updated local libpng to v1.6.37.

- Fixed packaging issues on macOS and Windows

- Now ignore sRGB profile errors in PNG files

- The GUI would crash when saving

- Page comments are now allowed in `pre` text

update to 1.9.9:

- Added support for a...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-882=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

htmldoc-1.9.12-lp152.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20308.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184424

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0882-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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security advisory buffer overflow software update critical severity htmldoc openSUSE

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