Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-8eaf80107a Critical: python-pygments ReDoS
fedora
March 28, 2024
Security fix for CVE-2022-40896
Summary
Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting,
forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.
Highlights are:
* a wide range of over 500 languages and other text formats is supported
* special attention is paid to details that increase highlighting quality
* support for new languages and formats are added easily;
most languages use a simple regex-based lexing mechanism
* a number of output formats is available, among them HTML, RTF, LaTeX
and ANSI sequences
* it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2022-40896
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Sun Mar 17 2024 Charalampos Stratakis
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2259082 - [F38] CVE-2022-40896 python-pygments: pygments: ReDoS in pygments [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259082
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-8eaf80107a' 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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Name: python-pygments
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.14.0
Release: 2.fc38
Summary: Syntax highlighting engine written in Python
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