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RockyLinux 8 : pandoc (RLSA-2025:8427)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243095

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:8427 advisory.

 * cmark-gfm: Quadratic complexity bugs may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-24824)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected pandoc and / or pandoc-common packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:8427

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2210172

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243095

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-8427.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pandoc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pandoc-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24824