Upstream information

CVE-2020-5238 at MITRE

Description

The table extension in GitHub Flavored Markdown before version 0.29.0.gfm.1 takes O(n * n) time to parse certain inputs. An attacker could craft a markdown table which would take an unreasonably long time to process, causing a denial of service. This issue does not affect the upstream cmark project. The issue has been fixed in version 0.29.0.gfm.1.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1173851 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 8
  • pandoc >= 2.0.6-5.el8
  • pandoc-common >= 2.0.6-5.el8
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2021:1972

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jul 2 08:14:57 2020
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 9 15:43:09 2024