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CVE-2022-27114

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

There is a vulnerability in htmldoc 1.9.16. In image_load_jpeg function image.cxx when it calls malloc,'img->width' and 'img->height' they are large enough to cause an integer overflow. So, the malloc function may return a heap blosmaller than the expected size, and it will cause a buffer overflow/Address boundary error in the jpeg_read_scanlines function.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• htmldoc: 1.9.16

References

• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/31f780487e5ddc426888638786cdc47631687275
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/471
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00014.html
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/31f780487e5ddc426888638786cdc47631687275
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/471
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00014.html

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