MGASA-2021-0245

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    MGASA-2021-0245

    Published: 13 Jun 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-27291

    Summary: Updated python-pygments packages fix a security vulnerability

    Details: 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 (CVE-2021-27291).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0245.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28982, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/GSJRFHALQ7E3UV4FFMFU2YQ6LUDHAI55/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-pygments

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python-pygments?arch=source&distro=mageia-7

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.1-1.2.mga7

    Affected versions

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