CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-24191

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Apr 04, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In HTMLDOC 1.9.14, an infinite loop in the gif_read_lzw function can lead to a pointer arbitrarily pointing to heap memory and resulting in a buffer overflow.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Htmldoc Htmldoc_project * 1.9.15 (excluding)
Htmldoc Ubuntu bionic *
Htmldoc Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Htmldoc Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Htmldoc Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Htmldoc Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Htmldoc Ubuntu focal *
Htmldoc Ubuntu impish *
Htmldoc Ubuntu kinetic *
Htmldoc Ubuntu lunar *
Htmldoc Ubuntu mantic *
Htmldoc Ubuntu trusty *
Htmldoc Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Htmldoc Ubuntu upstream *
Htmldoc Ubuntu xenial *

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