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openSUSE: 2024:0304-1 Moderate Severity: Htmldoc Update Fixes Issue

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A patch for htmldoc addressing CVE-2024-45508 has been released on openSUSE, classified with moderate risk.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for htmldoc fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2024-45508: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in parse_paragraph in

ps-pdf.cxx because of an attempt to strip leading whitespace from a

whitespace-only node [boo#1230022].

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity htmldoc openSUSE out-of-bounds write

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 Backports SLE-15-SP5:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2024-304=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

htmldoc-1.9.16-bp155.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45508.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230022

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2024:0304-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity htmldoc openSUSE out-of-bounds write

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