openSUSE-SU-2021:0893-1: important: Security update for htmldoc
openSUSE Security Update: Security update for htmldoc
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0893-1
Rating: important
References: #1184424
Cross-References: CVE-2021-20308
CVSS scores:
CVE-2021-20308 (NVD) : 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2021-20308 (SUSE): 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected Products:
openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2
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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
This update for htmldoc fixes the following issues:
htmldoc was updated to version 1.9.12
* Fixed buffer-overflow CVE-2021-20308 ( boo#1184424 )
* Fixed a crash bug with "data:" URIs and EPUB output
* Fixed several other crash bugs
* Fixed JPEG error handling
* Fixed some minor issues
* Removed the bundled libjpeg, libpng, and zlib.
update to 1.9.11:
- Added high-resolution desktop icons for Linux.
- Updated the internal HTTP library to fix truncation of redirection URLs
- Fixed a regression in the handling of character entities for UTF-8 input
- The `--numbered` option did not work when the table-of-contents was
disabled
- Updated local zlib to v1.2.11.
- Updated local libpng to v1.6.37.
- Fixed packaging issues on macOS and Windows
- Now ignore sRGB profile errors in PNG files
- The GUI would crash when saving
- Page comments are now allowed in `pre` text
update to 1.9.9:
- Added support for a `HTMLDOC.filename` META keyword that controls the
filename reported in CGI mode; the default remains "htmldoc.pdf" (Issue
#367)
- Fixed a paragraph formatting issue with large inline images (Issue #369)
- Fixed a buffer underflow issue (Issue #370)
- Fixed PDF page numbers (Issue #371)
- Added support for a new `L` header/footer format (`$LETTERHEAD`), which
inserts a letterhead image at its full size (Issue #372, Issue #373,
Issue #375)
- Updated the build documentation (Issue #374)
- Refactored the PRE rendering code to work around compiler optimization
bugs
- Added support for links with targets (Issue #351)
- Fixed a table rowspan + valign bug (Issue #360)
- Added support for data URIs (Issue #340)
- HTMLDOC no longer includes a PDF table of contents when converting a
single web page (Issue #344)
- Updated the markdown support with external links, additional inline
markup, and hard line breaks.
- Links in markdown text no longer render with a leading space as part of
the link (Issue #346)
- Fixed a buffer underflow bug discovered by AddressSanitizer.
- Fixed a bug in UTF-8 support (Issue #348)
- PDF output now includes the base language of the input document(s)
- Optimized the loading of font widths (Issue #354)
- Optimized PDF page resources (Issue #356)
- Optimized the base memory used for font widths (Issue #357)
- Added proper `` support (Issue #361)
- Title files can now be markdown.
- The GUI did not support EPUB output.
- Empty markdown table cells were not rendered in PDF or PostScript output.
- The automatically-generated title page now supports both "docnumber" and
"version" metadata.
- Added support for dc:subject and dc:language metadata in EPUB output
from the HTML keywords and lang values.
- Added support for the subject and language metadata in markdown input.
- Fixed a buffer underflow bug (Issue #338)
- `htmldoc --help` now reports whether HTTPS URLs are supported (Issue
#339)
- Fixed an issue with HTML title pages and EPUB output.
- Inline fixed-width text is no longer reduced in size automatically
- Optimized initialization of font width data (Issue #334)
- Fixed formatting bugs with aligned images (Issue #322, Issue #324)
- Fixed support for three digit "#RGB" color values (Issue #323)
- Fixed character set support for markdown metadata.
- Updated libpng to v1.6.34 (Issue #326)
- The makefiles did not use the CPPFLAGS value (Issue #328)
- Added Markdown table support.
- Fixed parsing of TBODY, TFOOT, and THEAD elements in HTML files.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-893=1
Package List:
- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):
htmldoc-1.9.12-bp152.4.3.1
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20308.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184424
A htmldoc security update has been released for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2.
