Debian Security Advisory 5471-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5471-1 - A security vulnerability has been discovered in libhtmlcleaner-java, a Java HTML parser library. An attacker was able to cause a denial of service (StackOverflowError) if the parser runs on user supplied input with deeply nested HTML elements. This update introduces a new nesting depth limit which can be overridden in cleaner properties.

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