Arch Linux: 2021-02-07 Low Severity Advisory for python2-jinja DoS

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202102-20
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Severity: Low
Date    : 2021-02-07
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-28493
Package : python2-jinja
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1523

Summary
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The package python2-jinja before version 2.11.3-1 is vulnerable to
denial of service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 2.11.3-1.

# pacman -Syu "python2-jinja>=2.11.3-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 2.11.3.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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A security issue was found in python-jinja before version 2.11.3. The
regular expression denial of service vulnerability is mainly due to the
sub-pattern [a-zA-Z0-9._-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+ This issue can be mitigated
by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by
implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory.

Impact
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A remote user might cause a huge CPU utilization via specially crafted
input.

References
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https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JINJA2-1012994
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/pull/1343
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/commit/ef658dc3b6389b091d608e710a810ce8b87995b3
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-28493