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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-a0f0eb8500 Moderate: ksh Code Injection Issue

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This modification tackles potential vulnerabilities linked to Perl scripting in Debian caused by unsanitized input from shell variables.
Do not evaluate arithmetic expressions from environment variables at startup

Summary

KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible

with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).

Do not evaluate arithmetic expressions from environment variables at startup

* Fri Feb 7 2020 Siteshwar Vashisht - 1:2020.0.0-2

- Do not evaluate arithmetic expressions from environment variables at startup

Resolves: #1790549

* Fri Oct 11 2019 Siteshwar Vashisht - 1:2020.0.0-1

- Rebase to 2020.0.0

* Tue Sep 3 2019 Siteshwar Vashisht - 1:2020.0.0-0.3

- Rebase to 2020.0.0-beta1

* Wed Apr 24 2019 Siteshwar Vashisht - 1:2020.0.0-0.2

- Add virtual provider for `/usr/bin/ksh`

* Wed Apr 17 2019 Siteshwar Vashisht - 1:2020.0.0-0.1

- Rebase to 2020.0.0-alpha1

Resolves: #1700777

[ 1 ] Bug #1790549 - CVE-2019-14868 ksh: environment variables on startup are interpreted as arithmetic expression leading to code injection [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1790549

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-a0f0eb8500' at the command

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 30
Version: 2020.0.0
Release: 2.fc30
Summary: The Original ATT Korn Shell

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