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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-b458482d48 Critical: Gitit File Overwrite

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security alert for Fedora 39 regarding patches for Gitit that mitigate severe file overwrite vulnerabilities associated with pandoc.
Security fix for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745 pandoc: backport fixes for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745 pandoc-cli: new package for pandoc binary

Summary

Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore. Pages and

uploaded files can be modified either directly via the VCS's command-line tools

or through the wiki's web interface. Pandoc is used for markup processing, so

pages may be written in (extended) markdown, reStructuredText, LaTeX, HTML, or

literate Haskell.

Notable features include

* plugins: dynamically loaded page transformations written in Haskell (see

"Network.Gitit.Interface")

* conversion of TeX math to MathML for display in web browsers

* syntax highlighting of source code files and code snippets

* Atom feeds (site-wide and per-page)

* a library, "Network.Gitit", that makes it simple to include a gitit wiki in

any happstack application

You can see a running demo at .

For usage information: 'gitit --help'.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745 pandoc: backport fixes for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745 pandoc-cli: new package for pandoc binary patat: update to 0.11.0.0 and enable tests base64, isocline, toml-parser: now packaged in Fedora

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security advisory update Fedora file overwrite critical threat pandoc gitit

Change Log

* Tue Feb 27 2024 Jens Petersen - 0.15.1.1-6 - rebuild * Wed Jan 24 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.15.1.1-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jan 19 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.15.1.1-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2220871 - CVE-2023-35936 pandoc: allows attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2220871 [ 2 ] Bug #2225379 - CVE-2023-38745 pandoc: allows attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system (incomplete fix in upstream for CVE-2023-35936) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225379

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-b458482d48' 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: gitit
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 0.15.1.1
Release: 6.fc39
URL: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit
Summary: Wiki using happstack, git or darcs, and pandoc

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