[R-pkg-team] Bug#1041099: r-cran-commonmark: CVE-2023-37463

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: r-cran-commonmark
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for r-cran-commonmark.

CVE-2023-37463[0]:
| cmark-gfm is an extended version of the C reference implementation
| of CommonMark, a rationalized version of Markdown syntax with a
| spec. Three polynomial time complexity issues in cmark-gfm may lead
| to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service.
| These vulnerabilities have been patched in 0.29.0.gfm.12.

https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-w4qg-3vf7-m9x5

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-2023-37463
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-37463

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.