Ubuntu USN-855-1 (libhtml-parser-perl)

The remote host is missing an update to libhtml-parser-perl announced via advisory USN-855-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: ubuntu8551.nasl 8616 2018-02-01 08:24:13Z cfischer $ $Id: ubuntu8551.nasl 8616 2018-02-01 08:24:13Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory USN-855-1...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : libhtml-parser-perl vulnerability (USN-855-1)

Mark Martinec discovered that HTML::Parser incorrectly handled strings with incomplete entities. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications that use HTML::Parser and cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...