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GLSA-202405-07 : HTMLDOC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194977

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202405-07 (HTMLDOC: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HTMLDOC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All HTMLDOC users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-text/htmldoc-1.9.16

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202405-07

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780489

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194977

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202405-07.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/4/2024

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23165

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:htmldoc, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20308, CVE-2021-23158, CVE-2021-23165, CVE-2021-23180, CVE-2021-23191, CVE-2021-23206, CVE-2021-26252, CVE-2021-26259, CVE-2021-26948, CVE-2021-40985, CVE-2021-43579, CVE-2022-0137, CVE-2022-0534, CVE-2022-24191, CVE-2022-27114, CVE-2022-28085, CVE-2022-34033, CVE-2022-34035