CVE-2018-20821

NameCVE-2018-20821
DescriptionThe parsing component in LibSass through 3.5.5 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (uncontrolled recursion in Sass::Parser::parse_css_variable_value in parser.cpp).
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libsass (PTS)buster3.5.5-4vulnerable (unimportant)
bullseye3.6.4+20201122-1fixed
bookworm3.6.5+20220909-1fixed
sid, trixie3.6.5+20231221-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libsasssourcestretch(not affected)
libsasssource(unstable)3.6.3-1low

Notes

[buster] - libsass <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - libsass <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/2658
Introduced by: https://github.com/sass/libsass/commit/efd97dae376de50b3e6ed724337c4f274a21491d (3.5.0)
Fixed by: https://github.com/sass/libsass/commit/f2db04883e5fff4e03777dcc1eb60d4373c45be1

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