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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2021-1972-01 Moderate Pandoc DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
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An update for pandoc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.
Security Fix(es):
* cmark-gfm: Exponential time to parse certain inputs could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-5238)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory DoS issue moderate impact Red Hat Enterprise pandoc

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5238 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source: pandoc-2.0.6-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: pandoc-2.0.6-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: pandoc-common-2.0.6-5.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: pandoc-2.0.6-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: pandoc-2.0.6-5.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: pandoc-2.0.6-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1972-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1972
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for pandoc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory DoS issue moderate impact Red Hat Enterprise pandoc

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1854328 - CVE-2020-5238 cmark-gfm: Exponential time to parse certain inputs could lead to DoS

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