ALSA-2022:5597

Pandoc is a markdown/markup conversion tool. The version of pandoc in AlmaLinux 8 CRB uses cmark-gfm (GitHub's extended version of the C reference implementation of CommonMark) for parts of its conversion. The update, fixes CVE-2022-24724: an integer overflow in cmark-gfm's table row parsing which may lead to heap memory corruption when parsing tables with more than UINT16_MAX columns. Security Fix(es):

• cmark-gfm: possible RCE due to integer overflow (CVE-2022-24724) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.