A pandoc security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2021:1972-01: Moderate: pandoc security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: pandoc security update
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
CVE Names: CVE-2020-5238
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1. Summary:
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 impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
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.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1854328 - CVE-2020-5238 cmark-gfm: Exponential time to parse certain inputs could lead to DoS
6. 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/
7. 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/
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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