GHSA-9w8r-397f-prfh
Infinite Loop in Pygments
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20270
- https://github.com/pygments/pygments/commit/f91804ff4772e3ab41f46e28d370f57898700333
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922136
- https://github.com/pygments/pygments
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pygments/PYSEC-2021-140.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html