Re: Unresponsive maintainer: petersen / Pandoc package not updated since June 2023: Security vulnerability, CVE-2023-35936 (medium)

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As a pandoc user, I'm happy to help with any reviews. Is there a list
where this tends to get posted, apart from devel?

Thanks,

Michel

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 11:26:33PM +0800, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote:
> I should also have added there's an increasing amount of technical debt
> with the pandoc packaging - I guess I need to beg people to help with
> package reviews: also reminded of our packaging (review) streamlining
> discussion from Flock last year.
> 
> Jens
> 
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, 23:23 Jens-Ulrik Petersen, <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 Subject: Fedora package "pandoc" outdated and contains security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@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: petersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> 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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