ALAS2-2023-2198

Related Vulnerabilities: 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. (CVE-2021-27291)

ALAS2-2023-2198


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2198
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-03 18:10 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-08 22:02 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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)


Affected Packages:

python-pygments


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-pygments to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    python-pygments-1.4-10.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    python-pygments-1.4-10.amzn2.0.1.src