Source: black X-Debbugs-CC: t...@security.debian.org Severity: important Tags: security
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for black. CVE-2024-21503[0]: | Versions of the package black before 24.3.0 are vulnerable to | Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the | lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded function in the strings.py file. An | attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious | input that causes a denial of service. Exploiting this | vulnerability is possible when running Black on untrusted input, or | if you habitually put thousands of leading tab characters in your | docstrings. https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-BLACK-6256273 https://github.com/psf/black/releases/tag/24.3.0 https://github.com/psf/black/commit/f00093672628d212b8965a8993cee8bedf5fe9b8 If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-21503 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21503 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
