CVE-2023-42821
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.5 of 10 (high)
Details
Summary
CVE-2023-42821 is a vulnerability affecting the Go library `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown`. Before pseudoversion `0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee`, parsing malformed Markdown input with the `parser.Mmark` extension enabled could lead to an out-of-bounds read issue. This can result in a denial of service. The flaw is located in the `citation.go` file, specifically on line 69. The vulnerability arises when the parser attempts to access an element beyond its length. A patch, represented by commit `14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940` or pseudoversion `0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee`, has been released to mitigate this issue.
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