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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2600-1 pygments -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Mar 2021

Affected Packages:

pygments

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-27291.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a series of denial of service vulnerabilities in Pygments, a popular syntax highlighting library for Python.

A number of regular expressions had exponential or cubic worst-case complexity which could cause a remote denial of service (DoS) when provided with malicious input.

• CVE-2021-27291

  In pygments 1.1+, fixed in 2.7.4, the lexers used to parse programming languages rely heavily on regular expressions. Some of the regular expressions have exponential or cubic worst-case complexity and are vulnerable to ReDoS. By crafting malicious input, an attacker can cause a denial of service.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.0+dfsg-1+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pygments packages.

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