A pygments security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 8 Extended LTS to address a series of denial of service vulnerabilities.
ELA-384-1 pygments security update
Package pygments
ELA-384-1 pygments security update
Version 2.0.1+dfsg-1.1+deb8u3
Related CVEs CVE-2021-27291
It was discovered that there was a series of denial of service vulnerabilities in Pygments, a popular syntax highlighting library for Python.
A number of regular expressions had exponential or cubic worst-case complexity which could cause a remote denial of service (DoS) when provided with malicious input.
For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.1+dfsg-1.1+deb8u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your pygments packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found at: https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/
