CVE-2021-23191

Published: 2 March 2022

A security issue was found in htmldoc v1.9.12 and before. A NULL pointer dereference in the function image_load_jpeg() in image.cxx may result in denial of service.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23191
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/415
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/369b2ea1fd0d0537ba707f20a2f047b6afd2fbdc
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989437