Resource Exhaustion Affecting cmark-gfm package, versions <0.29.0.gfm.13-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-CMARKGFM-5678278
  • published11 Apr 2023
  • disclosed31 Mar 2023

Introduced: 31 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-24824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 cmark-gfm to version 0.29.0.gfm.13-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cmark-gfm package and not the cmark-gfm package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. A polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This CVE covers quadratic complexity issues when parsing text which leads with either large numbers of &gt; or - characters. This issue has been addressed in version 0.29.0.gfm.10. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should validate that their input comes from trusted sources.

CVSS Scores

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