cve-2022-46663
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-07 00:00
Modified
2025-03-25 14:40
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79cPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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