USN-2862-1

It was discovered that Pygments incorrectly sanitized strings used to search system fonts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pygments

Package

Name: pygments
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pygments@1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.6+dfsg-1

1.6+dfsg-1build1

1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python-pygments",
            "binary_version": "1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-pygments",
            "binary_version": "1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2862-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-8557"
        }
    ]
}