x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/gomarkdown/markdown: GHSA-xhr3-wf7j-h255

[GoVulnBot]

Advisory GHSA-xhr3-wf7j-h255 references a vulnerability in the following Go modules:

Module
github.com/gomarkdown/markdown

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 ...

References:

• ADVISORY: GHSA-xhr3-wf7j-h255
• ADVISORY: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44337
• FIX: gomarkdown/markdown@a2a9c4f
• WEB: https://github.com/Brinmon/CVE-2024-44337

Cross references:

• github.com/gomarkdown/markdown appears in 1 other report(s):
  • data/reports/GO-2023-2074.yaml (x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/gomarkdown/markdown: CVE-2023-42821 #2074)

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id: GO-ID-PENDING
modules:
    - module: github.com/gomarkdown/markdown
      non_go_versions:
        - fixed: 0.0.0-20240729232818-a2a9c4f
      vulnerable_at: 0.0.0-20240930133441-72d49d9543d8
summary: Infinite loop in github.com/gomarkdown/markdown
cves:
    - CVE-2024-44337
ghsas:
    - GHSA-xhr3-wf7j-h255
references:
    - advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhr3-wf7j-h255
    - advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44337
    - fix: https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252
    - web: https://github.com/Brinmon/CVE-2024-44337
source:
    id: GHSA-xhr3-wf7j-h255
    created: 2024-10-16T15:01:31.169855602Z
review_status: UNREVIEWED