SB2018100113 - Improper Validation of Array Index in Fedoraproject Fedora
Published: October 1, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018100113
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Improper Validation of Array Index (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17848)
CWE-ID: CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles <math><template><mn><b></template>, leading to a "panic: runtime error" (index out of range) in (*insertionModeStack).pop in node.go, called from inHeadIM, during an html.Parse call.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.