Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3309-1 tidy -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 18 Jul 2015
- Affected Packages:
- tidy
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 792571.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5522, CVE-2015-5523. - More information:
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Fernando Muñoz discovered that invalid HTML input passed to tidy, an HTML syntax checker and reformatter, could trigger a buffer overflow. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Geoff McLane also discovered that a similar issue could trigger an integer overflow, leading to a memory allocation of 4GB. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by saturating the target's memory.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 20091223cvs-1.2+deb7u1.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 20091223cvs-1.4+deb8u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your tidy packages.