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CVE-2024-45508

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

HTMLDOC before 1.9.19 has an out-of-bounds write in parse_paragraph in ps-pdf.cxx because of an attempt to strip leading whitespace from a whitespace-only node.

Affected products

• htmldoc: before 1.9.19 — fixed in 1.9.19

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: htmldoc 1.9.19. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/blob/2d5b2ab9ddbf2aee2209010cebc11efdd1cab6e2/CHANGES.md
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/2d5b2ab9ddbf2aee2209010cebc11efdd1cab6e2
• https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/528

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