Infinite loop Affecting github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/parser package, versions *
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- published16 Oct 2024
- disclosed15 Oct 2024
- creditBrinmon
Introduced: 15 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-44337 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/parser is a library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop via the paragraph function in the parser/block.go file. An attacker can cause the application to hang and consume resources indefinitely by providing tailor-made input that triggers an infinite loop.