Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that Parser.next_block was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would. This was happening because the regular expression that detects any list was not agreeing with the regular expression that detects a specific list type. So the line kept getting pushed back onto the reader, hence causing the loop.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-10-16T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:08:21.793Z

Reserved: 2018-10-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-18385

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-10-16T16:50:12.927

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2018-18385

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-09-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18385 - Bugzilla