What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-28085

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A flaw was found in htmldoc commit 31f7804. A heap buffer overflow in the function pdf_write_names in ps-pdf.cxx may lead to arbitrary code execution and Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

• htmldoc: before 1.9.16 — fixed in 1.9.16

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: htmldoc 1.9.16. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/46c8ec2b9bccb8ccabff52d998c5eee77a228348
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/480
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/46c8ec2b9bccb8ccabff52d998c5eee77a228348
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/480

Get alerted when CVE-2022-28085 or the next vulnerability affects your stack