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CVE-2024-28244

Published: 25/03/2024 Updated: 26/03/2024

Vulnerability Summary

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using `\def` or `\newcommand` that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting `maxExpand` to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named maxExpand which aims to prevent infinitely recursive macros from consuming all available memory and/or triggering a stack overflow error. Unfortunately, support for "Unicode (sub|super)script characters" allows an malicious user to bypass this limit. Each sub/superscript group instantiated a separate Parser with its own limit on macro executions, without inheriting the current count of macro executions from its parent. This has been corrected in KaTeX v0.16.10.

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Debian Bug report logs - #1067805 node-katex: CVE-2024-28243 CVE-2024-28244 CVE-2024-28245 CVE-2024-28246 Package: src:node-katex; Maintainer for src:node-katex is Debian Javascript Maintainers <pkg-javascript-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 ...