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SUSE: CVE-2021-20270: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/22/2021
Created
05/07/2021
Added
05/05/2021
Modified
10/31/2022

Description

An infinite loop in SMLLexer in Pygments versions 1.5 to 2.7.3 may lead to denial of service when performing syntax highlighting of a Standard ML (SML) source file, as demonstrated by input that only contains the "exception" keyword.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-python2-pygments
  • suse-upgrade-python3-pygments

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