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Ubuntu: USN-6100-1 (CVE-2023-24038): HTML::StripScripts vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-6100-1 (CVE-2023-24038): HTML::StripScripts vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/21/2023
Created
05/25/2023
Added
05/25/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libhtml-stripscripts-perl

References

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