Advisories » MGASA-2022-0191

Updated htmldoc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 May 2022
Modification date: 19 May 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-27114

Description

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