CVE-2018-17143: fedoraproject fedora

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-17143 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 2.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 17-09-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-17 in Go mishandles <template><tBody><isindex/action=0>, leading to a "panic: runtime error" in inBodyIM in parse.go during an html.Parse call.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.