RockyLinux 8 : pandoc (RLSA-2022:5597)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 323265

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-2022:5597 advisory.

* cmark-gfm: possible RCE due to integer overflow (CVE-2022-24724)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 323265

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2022-5597.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2026

Updated: 6/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24724

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24724

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