cmark-gfm Quadratic complexity bug in handle_close_bracket may lead to a denial of service
Summary
cmark-gfm Quadratic complexity bug in handle_close_bracket may lead to a denial of service
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22486 cmark-gfm
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22486 cmark
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov