Denial of Service Vulnerability in LibSass 3.5.5 due to Endless Loop in inspect.cpp

CVE-2018-19826 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

In inspect.cpp in LibSass 3.5.5, a high memory footprint caused by an endless loop (containing a Sass::Inspect::operator()(Sass::String_Quoted*) stack frame) may cause a Denial of Service via crafted sass input files with stray '&' or '/' characters. NOTE: Upstream comments indicate this issue is closed as "won't fix" and "works as intended" by design

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