Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package babel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BABEL-1916016
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed10 Dec 2020
Introduced: 10 Dec 2020
CVE-2021-20270 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream babel package and not the babel package as distributed by RHEL.
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
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20270
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922136
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4151