Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package htmldoc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2410-HTMLDOC-8202307
  • published15 Oct 2024
  • disclosed24 Feb 2022

Introduced: 24 Feb 2022

CVE-2021-26252  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:24.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream htmldoc package and not the htmldoc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A flaw was found in htmldoc in v1.9.12. Heap buffer overflow in pspdf_prepare_page(),in ps-pdf.cxx may lead to execute arbitrary code and denial of service.