CVE-2024-45508

Publication date 1 September 2024

Last updated 27 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

HTMLDOC before 1.9.19 has an out-of-bounds write in parse_paragraph in ps-pdf.cxx because of an attempt to strip leading whitespace from a whitespace-only node.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
htmldoc 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Fixed 1.9.18-1ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.9.17-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.9.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.9.7-1ubuntu0.3+esm2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.9.2-1ubuntu0.2+esm2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.8.27-8ubuntu1.1+esm3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.8.27-8ubuntu1+esm4

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H