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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 Critical DoS Fix for ghc-cmark-gfm

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 31 has released a significant patch for ghc-cmark-gfm, reinforcing defenses against potential denial-of-service threats.
Security fix for CVE-2020-5238 - ghc-cmark-gfm updated to 0.2.2 which rebases the bundled cmark-gfm to 0.29.0.gfm.1 https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-7gc...

Summary

This package provides Haskell bindings for , the reference parser for , a fully specified variant of Markdown. It includes sources

for libcmark-gfm (0.29.0.gfm.0) and does not require prior installation of the

C library.

Security fix for CVE-2020-5238 - ghc-cmark-gfm updated to 0.2.2 which rebases

the bundled cmark-gfm to 0.29.0.gfm.1 https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-7gc6-9qr5-hc85

* Thu Sep 17 2020 Jens Petersen - 0.2.2-1

- https://github.com/kivikakk/cmark-gfm-hs/releases/tag/0.2.2

- updates cbits to cmark-gfm-0.29.0.gfm.1 for CVE-2020-5238 (#1854329)

https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-7gc6-9qr5-hc85

* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.2.1-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jul 17 2020 Jens Petersen - 0.2.1-2

- refresh to cabal-rpm-2.0.6

* Fri Feb 14 2020 Jens Petersen - 0.2.1-1

- update to 0.2.1

* Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.1.8-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1854328 - CVE-2020-5238 cmark: Exponential time to parse certain inputs could lead to DoS.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854328

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 0.2.2
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: Fast, accurate GitHub Flavored Markdown parser and renderer

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