Out-of-Bounds Write Affecting michaelrsweet/htmldoc package, versions [,1.9.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MICHAELRSWEETHTMLDOC-7856142
  • published2 Sept 2024
  • disclosed1 Sept 2024
  • creditWhereisDoujo

Introduced: 1 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-45508  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade michaelrsweet/htmldoc to version 1.9.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds Write due to an improper handling of whitespace-only nodes in the parse_paragraph function. An attacker can cause memory corruption by supplying a crafted input that triggers an out-of-bounds write.

CVSS Scores

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