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A rubygem-redcarpet security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: rubygem-redcarpet-3.3.2-26.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-44daa9c1d4
2023-05-09 01:57:45.056831
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Name : rubygem-redcarpet
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 3.3.2
Release : 26.fc38
URL :   http://github.com/vmg/redcarpet
Summary : A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser
Description :
A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

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Update Information:

A security flow was found on redcarpet that escaping html was not properly done
even if requested on some cases which may cause XSS vulnerability. This issue is
now assigned as CVE-2020-26298. This new rpm should fix this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Apr 30 2023 Mamoru TASAKA - 3.3.2-26
- Bacckport upstream patch for CVE-2020-26298 (bug 1915370)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1915371 - CVE-2020-26298 rubygem-redcarpet: does not escape HTML when processing quotes which could result in XSS vulnerability [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915371
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-44daa9c1d4' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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