CVE-2024-45508

Upstream information

CVE-2024-45508 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores

CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1230022 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2024:0303-1, published Mon Sep 16 22:48:11 2024
• openSUSE-SU-2024:0304-1, published Mon Sep 16 22:48:11 2024

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5	htmldoc >= 1.9.16-bp155.2.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-304
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6	htmldoc >= 1.9.16-bp156.3.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-303
openSUSE Leap 15.5	htmldoc >= 1.9.16-bp155.2.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-304
openSUSE Leap 15.6	htmldoc >= 1.9.16-bp156.3.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-303
openSUSE Tumbleweed	htmldoc >= 1.9.18-2.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-14308

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Sep 2 02:00:02 2024
CVE page last modified: Sun Nov 2 00:25:23 2025