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FreeBSD: VID-951B513A-9F42-436D-888D-2162615D0FE4 (CVE-2022-42964): py-pymatgen -- regular expression denial of service

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FreeBSD: VID-951B513A-9F42-436D-888D-2162615D0FE4 (CVE-2022-42964): py-pymatgen -- regular expression denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/09/2022
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/14/2023
Modified
04/14/2023

Description

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the pymatgen PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the GaussianInput.from_string method

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py310-pymatgen
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py311-pymatgen
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py37-pymatgen
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py38-pymatgen
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py39-pymatgen

References

  • CVE-2022-42964

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