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Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-26302): markdown-it-py vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 22, 2023
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 25, 2026

Description

Denial of service could be caused to the command line interface of markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an attacker was allowed to use invalid UTF-8 characters as input.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-markdown-it-py
Title
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