[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#995229: datatables.js: CVE-2021-23445 - contents of array not escaped by HTML escape entities function

[Neil Williams]

Source: datatables.js
Version: 1.10.21+dfsg-2
Severity: important
Tags: security
X-Debbugs-Cc: codehelp at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for datatables.js.

CVE-2021-23445[0]:
| This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3. If an array is
| passed to the HTML escape entities function it would not have its
| contents escaped.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23445
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23445

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

See also https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables/commit/59a8d3f8a3c1138ab08704e783bc52bfe88d7c9b

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled