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openSUSE 15.3: 2022:0088-1 Critical Update for htmldoc DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial openSUSE patch for htmldoc addresses several vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows and denial of service threats.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

htmldoc was updated to fix issues:

- CVE-2021-40985: Fixed buffer overflow may lead to DoS via a crafted BMP

image (bsc#1192357)

- CVE-2021-43579: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in image_load_bmp()

results in remote code execution if the victim converts an HTML document

linking to a crafted BMP file (bsc#1194487)

- CVE-2022-0534: Fixed stack out-of-bounds read in gif_get_code() when

opening a malicious GIF file results in a segmentation fault

(bsc#1195758)

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-88=1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-88=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

ghostscript-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-devel-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-x11-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-161.1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

htmldoc-1.8.28-9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-40985.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43579.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45944.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45949.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0534.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194303

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194304

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194487

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195758

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP5 SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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