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Fedora 37: 2023-8682a0e17d Critical: rubygem-redcarpet XSS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vulnerability in rubygem-redcarpet has been patched to mitigate XSS threats in Fedora 37. Ensure you update to the newest version immediately.
A security flow was found on redcarpet that escaping html was not properly done even if requested on some cases which may cause XSS vulnerability

Summary

A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

A security flow was found on redcarpet that escaping html was not properly done

even if requested on some cases which may cause XSS vulnerability. This issue is

now assigned as CVE-2020-26298. This new rpm should fix this issue.

* Sun Apr 30 2023 Mamoru TASAKA - 3.3.2-26

- Bacckport upstream patch for CVE-2020-26298 (bug 1915370)

* Fri Jan 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.3.2-25

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jan 4 2023 Mamoru TASAKA - 3.3.2-24

- Rebuild for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ruby_3.2

[ 1 ] Bug #1915371 - CVE-2020-26298 rubygem-redcarpet: does not escape HTML when processing quotes which could result in XSS vulnerability [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915371

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-8682a0e17d' 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 37
Version: 3.3.2
Release: 26.fc37
Summary: A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser

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