[USN-4897-2] Pygments vulnerabilities

Severity High

Affected Packages 2

CVEs 2

Pygments could be made to hang if it opened a specially crafted file.

USN-4897-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Pygments. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Ben Caller discovered that Pygments incorrectly handled parsing certain
files. If a user or automated system were tricked into parsing a specially
crafted file, a remote attacker could cause Pygments to hang or consume
resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-27291)

It was discovered that Pygments incorrectly handled parsing certain
files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2021-20270)

Package	Affected Version
pkg:deb/ubuntu/python3-pygments?distro=trusty	< 1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1+esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-pygments?distro=trusty	< 1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1+esm1

ID

USN-4897-2

Severity

high

Severity from

CVE-2021-20270

URL

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4897-2

Published

2023-08-14T10:38:30
(13 months ago)

Modified

2023-08-14T10:38:30
(13 months ago)

Other Advisories

Type	Package URL	Namespace	Name / Product	Version	Distribution / Platform	Arch	Patch / Fix
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/python3-pygments?distro=trusty	ubuntu	python3-pygments	< 1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1+esm1	trusty
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-pygments?distro=trusty	ubuntu	python-pygments	< 1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1+esm1	trusty

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