CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-12964

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Aug 18, 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
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

There is a stack consumption issue in LibSass 3.4.5 that is triggered in the function Sass::Eval::operator() in eval.cpp. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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 devel *
Libsass Ubuntu disco *
Libsass Ubuntu eoan *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libsass Ubuntu focal *
Libsass Ubuntu groovy *
Libsass Ubuntu hirsute *
Libsass Ubuntu impish *
Libsass Ubuntu jammy *
Libsass Ubuntu kinetic *
Libsass Ubuntu lunar *
Libsass Ubuntu mantic *
Libsass Ubuntu noble *
Libsass Ubuntu upstream *
Libsass Ubuntu xenial *
Libsass Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

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