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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5339-1 libhtml-stripscripts-perl -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Feb 2023

Affected Packages:

libhtml-stripscripts-perl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1029400.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-24038.

More information:

Ikeda Soji reported that libhtml-stripscripts-perl, a Perl module for removing scripts from HTML, is prone to a regular expression denial of service, due to catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with specially crafted style attributes.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1.06-1+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libhtml-stripscripts-perl packages.

For the detailed security status of libhtml-stripscripts-perl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libhtml-stripscripts-perl