CVE-2024-45338: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html

December 18, 2024

An attacker can craft an input to the Parse functions that would be processed non-linearly with respect to its length, resulting in extremely slow parsing. This could cause a denial of service.

References

cs.opensource.google/go/x/net
github.com/advisories/GHSA-w32m-9786-jp63
github.com/golang/go/issues/70906
go.dev/cl/637536
go.dev/issue/70906
groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/wSCRmFnNmPA/m/Lvcd0mRMAwAJ
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45338
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-3333

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