cve-2021-20270
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-23 16:40
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922136Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlNot Applicable, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922136Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlNot Applicable, Third Party Advisory
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