Hello I am here - thanks for contacting me.

I was hoping to cover this as part of my F40 Change, but unfortunately I haven't gotten to it, so the Change is now at risk of being deferred to F41.

Nevertheless I will see what I can do about this for F40: maybe a backport can also be done for F39.

Next time you could also comment on the relevant bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996301 - that would be appreciated.

Thanks, Jens

PS Special thanks to Neal Gompa for pinging me in Matrix. 🙏


On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, 20:05 Christopher Klooz, <py0xc3@posteo.net> wrote:

I cannot reach the maintainer petersen (see mail below): The package "pandoc" remains at 3.1.3 in Fedora, but pandoc is already at 3.1.11.1. Among the updates since 3.1.3, there have been two security-critical (including the medium CVE-2023-35936. Security fixes are in 3.1.4 & 3.1.6).

The actual risk is limited, but these should be updated nevertheless.

Does anyone know how to reach him by other means?

Regards,
Chris



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Fedora package "pandoc" outdated and contains security vulnerability
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 15:55:09 +0100
From: py0xc3@posteo.net
To: petersen@fedoraproject.org


Hi petersen,

I am reaching out because of the package "pandoc", which you maintain.

I have seen that the package is still at version 3.1.3 [1] when I tried to install it with dnf, whereas the current version is 3.1.11.1 [2]: is this intended or an accident?

It has to be noted that the updates that have been added in the meantime contain fixes for security vulnerabilities (at least CVE-2023-35936; I have just roughly skimmed the changelogs). So at the moment, it seems the Fedora build can be exploited by attackers in some circumstances [3] [4] because it is still at 3.1.3.

Regards & thanks for maintaining,

Chris

[1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=11560

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc & https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

[3] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases?page=1

[4] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases?page=2

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