🛡️ CVE-2024-44337 on Debian — golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-44337 as tracked by Debian, for the package golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown. The fix is available in version 0.0~git20260725.8435af3-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44337 is classified as CWE-835: Infinite Loop. A loop condition can never become false for some inputs, hanging the process.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44337 is recorded against 1 package.

  • golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown (fixed in 0.0~git20260725.8435af3-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 October 2024 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-44337 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-10-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown — 0.0~git20260725.8435af3-1

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