Security Advisory

CVE-2023-24824

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-03-31 22:01:18
Last updated 2025-02-11 17:19:40
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

cmark-gfm is GitHubs fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. A polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This CVE covers quadratic complexity issues when parsing text which leads with either large numbers of `>` or `-` characters. This issue has been addressed in version 0.29.0.gfm.10. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should validate that their input comes from trusted sources.