redcarpet Buffer Overflow vulnerability · CVE-2015-5147 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

redcarpet Buffer Overflow vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 15, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 30, 2023

Package

redcarpet (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.2

Patched versions

3.3.2

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the header_anchor function in the HTML renderer in Redcarpet before 3.3.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 15, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Mar 30, 2023