High USN-6683-1 1 CVE

libhtmlcleaner-java vulnerability

Published Mar 7, 2024 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that HtmlCleaner incorrectly handled certain html
documents. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service via application crash.

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS	libhtmlcleaner-java	2.24-1+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS	libhtmlcleaner-java	2.21-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS	libhtmlcleaner-java	2.23-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.5

CVE-2023-34624

htmlcleaner vulnerable to stack exhaustion

An issue was discovered htmlcleaner thru = 2.28 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via crafted object that uses cyclic dependencies.

net.sourceforge.htmlcleaner:htmlcleaner libhtmlcleaner-java libhtmlcleaner-java Debian Ubuntu Maven

Jun 14, 2023

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34624