debian · CVE-2024-28244

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:02:26 GMT

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CVE-2024-28244 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (node-katex), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2.

Description:

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using `\def` or `\newcommand` that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting `maxExpand` to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named maxExpand which aims to prevent infinitely recursive macros from consuming all available memory and/or triggering a stack overflow error. Unfortunately, support for "Unicode (sub|super)script characters" allows an attacker to bypass this limit. Each sub/superscript group instantiated a separate Parser with its own limit on macro executions, without inheriting the current count of macro executions from its parent. This has been corrected in KaTeX v0.16.10.

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