CVE-2024-44337 Information

Description

The package github.com/gomarkdown/markdown is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to pseudoversion v0.0.0-20240729232818-a2a9c4f which corresponds with commit a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252 there was a logical problem in the paragraph function of the parser/block.go file which allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition by providing a tailor-made input that caused an infinite loop causing the program to hang and consume resources indefinitely. Submit a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252 contains fixes to this problem.

Reference

https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252 https://github.com/Brinmon/CVE-2024-44337