CVE-2018-18385: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

October 16, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

Asciidoctor allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that Parser.next_block was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18385

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