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Fedora 32: 2020-1eaffe0013 Critical: Pandoc-Citeproc DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An enhancement patch for pandoc-citeproc tackles CVE-2020-5238 within Fedora 32, boosting defenses against Denial of Service vulnerabilities.
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 - also update hakyll to 4.13.4.0 https://github.com/github/cmark...

Summary

The pandoc-citeproc library supports automatic generation of citations and a

bibliography in pandoc documents using the Citation Style Language (CSL) macro

language. More details on CSL can be found at .

In addition to a library, the package includes an executable, pandoc-citeproc,

which works as a pandoc filter and also has a mode for converting bibliographic

databases into CSL JSON and pandoc YAML metadata formats.

pandoc-citeproc originated as a fork of Andrea Rossato's citeproc-hs.

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 - also update hakyll to 4.13.4.0

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

* Mon Sep 21 2020 Jens Petersen - 0.16.2-2

- rebuild for cmark-gfm-0.2.2: fixes exponential parse (#1854329)

[ 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-2020-1eaffe0013' 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 32
Version: 0.16.2
Release: 2.fc32
Summary: Citeproc support for pandoc

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