CVE-2018-11503

medium

Description

The isfootnote function in markdown.c in libmarkdown.a in DISCOUNT 2.2.3a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by mkd2html.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4293

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00009.html

https://github.com/Orc/discount/issues/189#issuecomment-392247798

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-05-26

Updated: 2019-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H