CVE-2023-39663

NameCVE-2023-39663
DescriptionMathjax up to v2.7.9 was discovered to contain two Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities in MathJax.js via the components pattern and markdownPattern. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because the regular expressions are not applied to user input; thus, there is no risk.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1059304

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
mathjax (PTS)bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie2.7.9+dfsg-1vulnerable

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
mathjaxsource(unstable)(unfixed)1059304

Notes

[bookworm] - mathjax <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - mathjax <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - mathjax <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/3074

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