Gentoo: GLSA-201612-05 Moderate: Pygments Remote Code Execution Risk
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December 4, 2016
Pygments is vulnerable to remote code execution if an attacker is allowed to specify the font name.
Summary
A vulnerability in FontManager's _get_nix_font_path function allows shell metacharacters to be passed in a font name.
Resolution
All Pygments users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/pygments-2.0.2-r1"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2015-8557 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8557
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-05
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Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Severity: Normal
Title: Pygments: Arbitrary code execution
Date: December 04, 2016
Bugs: #564478
ID: 201612-05
Background
Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code
hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify
source code.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-python/pygments < 2.0.2-r1 >= 2.0.2-r1
Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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