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NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package golang-golang-x-net-dev  (opens in a new tab)

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Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GOLANGGOLANGXNETDEV-614236
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed17 Sept 2018
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Introduced: 17 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-golang-x-net-dev package and not the golang-golang-x-net-dev package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-17 in Go mishandles <math><template><mo><template>, leading to a "panic: runtime error" in parseCurrentToken in parse.go during an html.Parse call.