Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting cmark-gfm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
17.25% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-CMARKGFM-2415149
  • published26 Feb 2025
  • disclosed3 Mar 2022

Introduced: 3 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-24724  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:20.04 cmark-gfm.

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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

cmark-gfm is GitHub's extended version of the C reference implementation of CommonMark. Prior to versions 0.29.0.gfm.3 and 0.28.3.gfm.21, an integer overflow in cmark-gfm's table row parsing table.c:row_from_string may lead to heap memory corruption when parsing tables who's marker rows contain more than UINT16_MAX columns. The impact of this heap corruption ranges from Information Leak to Arbitrary Code Execution depending on how and where cmark-gfm is used. If cmark-gfm is used for rendering remote user controlled markdown, this vulnerability may lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) in applications employing affected versions of the cmark-gfm library. This vulnerability has been patched in the following cmark-gfm versions 0.29.0.gfm.3 and 0.28.3.gfm.21. A workaround is available. The vulnerability exists in the table markdown extensions of cmark-gfm. Disabling the table extension will prevent this vulnerability from being triggered.

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