1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-6100-1

USN-6100-1: HTML::StripScripts vulnerability

Publication date

23 May 2023

Overview

HTML::StripScripts could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that HTML::StripScripts does not properly parse HTML
content with certain style attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue
to cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

It was discovered that HTML::StripScripts does not properly parse HTML
content with certain style attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue
to cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic libhtml-stripscripts-perl –  1.06-2ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy libhtml-stripscripts-perl –  1.06-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 focal libhtml-stripscripts-perl –  1.06-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic libhtml-stripscripts-perl –  1.06-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 xenial libhtml-stripscripts-perl –  1.05-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  
14.04 trusty libhtml-stripscripts-perl –  1.05-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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