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Fedora 40: Moderate Pandoc File Overwrite Threat FEDORA-2024-7d83cbccb6

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian Security Alert regarding ghc-file-zip resolves critical flaws in pandoc, mitigating risks of potential data breaches.
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

RFC 4648-compliant Base64 with an eye towards performance and modernity

(additional support for RFC 7049 standards).

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora file overwrite pandoc base64 fix

Change Log

* Wed Feb 28 2024 Jens Petersen - 0.4.2.4-28 - bump over pandoc * Fri May 12 2023 Jens Petersen - 0.4.2.4-2 - add doc files to devel * Mon Jan 23 2023 Jens Petersen - 0.4.2.4-1 - spec file generated by cabal-rpm-2.1.0

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-2024-7d83cbccb6' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: ghc-base64
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0.4.2.4
Release: 28.fc40
URL: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base64
Summary: A modern RFC 4648-compliant Base64 library

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora file overwrite pandoc base64 fix

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