vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9909: html5lib -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 22, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of the < (less than) character in attribute values.

Solution

debian-upgrade-html5lib
Title
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