Input validation error in Fedora - CVE-2018-17142
Published: September 17, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36686
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17142
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-17 in Go mishandles <math><template><mo><template>, leading to a "panic: runtime error" in parseCurrentToken in parse.go during an html.Parse call.
Affected software
Fedora
golang-googlecode-net
Storage Defender – Data Protect
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
golang-googlecode-net
Storage Defender – Data Protect
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
How to mitigate CVE-2018-17142
Install update from vendor's website.
golang-googlecode-net - addressed in versions 0-0.48.20190302git16b79f2.fc28, 0-0.49.20190302git16b79f2.fc29
Storage Defender – Data Protect - update to 1.3.0
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 2.3.9
Storage Defender – Data Protect - update to 1.3.0
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 2.3.9