USN-4885-1: Pygments vulnerability

22 March 2021

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

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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.

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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.

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