The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specification.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles     <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because     inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specification. (CVE-2018-17846)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The html package (aka x/net/html) through 2018-09-25 in Go mishandles
    <table><math><select><mi><select></table>, leading to an infinite loop during an html.Parse call because
    inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM do not comply with a specification. (CVE-2018-17846)

Bump to commit 16b79f2e4e95ea23b2bf9903c9809ff7b013ce85 Security fixes for CVE-2018-17143, CVE-2018-17142, CVE-2018-17075, CVE-2018-17846, CVE-2018-17847, CVE-2018-17848

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250368	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-17846	Nessus	Misc.	high
419310	SCA: security update for golang.org/x/net (GHSA-vfw5-hrgq-h5wf)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
419310	SCA: security update for golang.org/x/net (GHSA-vfw5-hrgq-h5wf)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
123033	Fedora 28 : golang-googlecode-net (2019-07d447a1d3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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