Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4928-1 htmldoc -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Jun 2021

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-23158, CVE-2021-23165, CVE-2021-23180, CVE-2021-23191, CVE-2021-23206, CVE-2021-26252, CVE-2021-26259, CVE-2021-26948.

More information:

A buffer overflow was discovered in HTMLDOC, a HTML processor that generates indexed HTML, PS, and PDF, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. In addition a number of crashes were addressed.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.3-1+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your htmldoc packages.

For the detailed security status of htmldoc please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/htmldoc