CVE-2024-44337

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Published 2024-10-15 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The package `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown` is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to pseudoversion `v0.0.0-20240729232818-a2a9c4f`, which corresponds with commit `a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252`, there was a logical problem in the paragraph function of the parser/block.go file, which allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition by providing a tailor-made input that caused an infinite loop, causing the program to hang and consume resources indefinitely. Submit `a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252` contains fixes to this problem.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	forky	affected
debian	sid	affected
debian	trixie	affected

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/gomarkdown/markdown	`<0.0.0-20240729212818-a2a9c4f76ef5`	`0.0.0-20240729212818-a2a9c4f76ef5`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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