Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published May 26, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-11504

Description

The islist function in markdown.c in libmarkdown.a in DISCOUNT 2.2.3a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by mkd2html.

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Affected products

Orc/discountOSV
Range: 2.2.1, =a, aa, …
Discount Project/Discount
cpe:2.3:a:discount_project:discount:2.2.3:a:*:*:*:*:*:*
Debian/linux2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/Orc/discount/issues/189nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00009.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4293nvdThird Party Advisory

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