CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-11468
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The __mkd_trim_line function in mkdio.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.
Affected configurations
• discount project discount 2.2.3
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/Orc/discount/issues/189 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4293 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Orc/discount/issues/189 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4293 Third Party Advisory