[SECURITY] [DSA 3445-1] pygments security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3445-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
January 13, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : pygments
CVE ID : CVE-2015-8557
Debian Bug : 802828

Javantea discovered that pygments, a generic syntax highlighter, is
prone to a shell injection vulnerability allowing a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a font name.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.5+dfsg-1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.1+dfsg-1.1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.0.1+dfsg-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.1+dfsg-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pygments packages.

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