GO-2020-0014

Infinite loop due to improper handling of "select" tags in golang.org/x/net/html

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2018-17846
Aliases
GHSA-vfw5-hrgq-h5wf

Description

html.Parse does not properly handle "select" tags, which can lead to an infinite loop. If parsing user supplied input, this may be used as a denial of service vector.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Go · golang.org/x/netintroduced 0, fixed 0.0.0-20190125091013-d26f9f9a57f3

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database