vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-40985: htmldoc -- security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Nov 3, 2021

Added

Feb 28, 2022

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

A stack-based buffer under-read in htmldoc before 1.9.12, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted BMP image to image_load_bmp.

debian-upgrade-htmldoc

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