CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-40985

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-11-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

A stack-based buffer under-read in htmldoc before 1.9.12, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted BMP image to image_load_bmp.

Affected configurations

• htmldoc project htmldoc (< 1.9.12) • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-127 Buffer Under-read weakness

References