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Fedora 33: 2020-c39d7a562c Critical: pandoc-citeproc DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 33 Release for pandoc-citeproc addresses a significant vulnerability associated with CVE-2020-5238. Important information on this upgrade within.
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 pandoc-citeproc to 0.17.0.1 https://github.com/git...

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 pandoc-citeproc to 0.17.0.1

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

* Sat Sep 19 2020 Jens Petersen - 0.17.0.1-3

- update to 0.17.0.1

[ 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-c39d7a562c' 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 33
Version: 0.17.0.1
Release: 3.fc33
Summary: Supports using pandoc with citeproc

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