CVE-2022-24191 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2022-24191?

CVE-2022-24191 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 4 Apr 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In HTMLDOC 1.9.14, an infinite loop in the gif_read_lzw function can lead to a pointer arbitrarily pointing to heap memory and resulting in a buffer overflow.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24191?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Htmldoc Project Htmldoc.

How do I fix CVE-2022-24191?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-24191 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24191 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24191, GHSA-88v7-976w-9hc8, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24191.