USN-4885-1: Pygments vulnerability
22 March 2021
pygments could be made to hang if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- pygments - Generic syntax highlighter
Details
It was discovered that Pygments incorrectly handled parsing SML files. If a
user or automated system were tricked into parsing a specially crafted SML
file, a remote attacker could cause Pygments to hang, resulting in a denial
of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.