CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-11554

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Jul 23, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libsass Libsass 3.4.5 (including) 3.4.5 (including)
Libsass Ubuntu artful *
Libsass Ubuntu bionic *
Libsass Ubuntu cosmic *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libsass Ubuntu xenial *
Libsass Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References