Resource Exhaustion Affecting cmark package, versions <0.30.2-150400.3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-CMARK-5497389
  • published5 May 2023
  • disclosed13 Apr 2023

Introduced: 13 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-22486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 cmark to version 0.30.2-150400.3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cmark package and not the cmark package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. Versions prior to 0.29.0.gfm.7 contain a polynomial time complexity issue in handle_close_bracket that may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This vulnerability has been patched in 0.29.0.gfm.7.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1