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Fedora 39 2024-b458482d48 Critical: Pandoc File Manipulation Threats

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent release of pandoc in Fedora 39 includes essential security enhancements targeting significant vulnerabilities related to file handling.
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

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another.

The formats it can handle include

- light markup formats (many variants of Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc,

Org-mode, Muse, Textile, txt2tags) - HTML formats (HTML 4 and 5) - Ebook

formats (EPUB v2 and v3, FB2) - Documentation formats (GNU TexInfo, Haddock) -

Roff formats (man, ms) - TeX formats (LaTeX, ConTeXt) - Typst - XML formats

(DocBook 4 and 5, JATS, TEI Simple, OpenDocument) - Outline formats (OPML) -

Bibliography formats (BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON, CSL YAML, RIS) - Word

processor formats (Docx, RTF, ODT) - Interactive notebook formats (Jupyter

notebook ipynb) - Page layout formats (InDesign ICML) - Wiki markup formats

(MediaWiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, TWiki, Vimwiki, XWiki, ZimWiki, Jira wiki,

Creole) - Slide show formats (LaTeX Beamer, PowerPoint, Slidy, reveal.js,

Slideous, S5, DZSlides) - Data formats (CSV and TSV tables) - PDF (via external

programs such as pdflatex or wkhtmltopdf)

Pandoc can convert mathematical content in documents between TeX, MathML, Word

equations, roff eqn, typst, and plain text. It includes a powerful system for

automatic citations and bibliographies, and it can be customized extensively

using templates, filters, and custom readers and writers written in Lua.

For the pandoc command-line program, see the 'pandoc-cli' package.

For pdf output please also install pandoc-pdf or weasyprint.

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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Change Log

* Tue Mar 5 2024 Jens Petersen - 3.1.3-29 - toml-parser is now packaged in Fedora * Tue Feb 27 2024 Jens Petersen - 3.1.3-28 - pandoc-cli is now packaged in Fedora - move hslua subpackages to pandoc-cli - backport fixes for CVE-2023-35936 and CVE-2023-38745 * Thu Jan 25 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.1.3-27 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 21 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.1.3-26 - 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: pandoc
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 3.1.3
Release: 29.fc39
URL: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc
Summary: Conversion between markup formats

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