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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6483-1
November 15, 2023tidy-html5 vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 23.10
- Ubuntu 23.04
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Summary:
tidy-html5 could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially
crafted file.
Software Description:
- tidy-html5: HTML/XML syntax checker and reformatter
Details:
Neeraj Pal discovered that HTML Tidy incorrectly handled parsing certain
HTML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into parsing
specially crafted HTML data, a remote attacker could cause HTML Tidy to
consume resources, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 23.10:
libtidy5deb1 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.23.10.1
tidy 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.23.10.1
Ubuntu 23.04:
libtidy5deb1 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.23.04.1
tidy 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.23.04.1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
libtidy5deb1 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.22.04.1
tidy 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.22.04.1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
libtidy5deb1 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.20.04.1
tidy 2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.20.04.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6483-1
CVE-2021-33391
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tidy-html5/2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.23.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tidy-html5/2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.23.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tidy-html5/2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tidy-html5/2:5.6.0-11ubuntu0.20.04.1