SB2018100111 - Infinite loop in Fedoraproject Fedora
Published: October 1, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018100111
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17846)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specification.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.