RedHat: RHSA-2022-5597:01 Important: pandoc security update
Summary
Pandoc is a markdown/markup conversion tool. The version of pandoc in RHEL
8 CRB uses cmark-gfm (GitHub's extended version of the C reference
implementation of CommonMark) for parts of its conversion. The update,
fixes CVE-2022-24724: an integer overflow in cmark-gfm's table row parsing
which may lead to heap memory corruption when parsing tables with more than
UINT16_MAX columns.
Security Fix(es):
* cmark-gfm: possible RCE due to integer overflow (CVE-2022-24724)
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.
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24724 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Package List
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source:
pandoc-2.0.6-6.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64:
pandoc-2.0.6-6.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
pandoc-common-2.0.6-6.el8_6.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
pandoc-2.0.6-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
pandoc-2.0.6-6.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
pandoc-2.0.6-6.el8_6.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/
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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
2060662 - CVE-2022-24724 cmark-gfm: possible RCE due to integer overflow
