MGASA-2023-0344 - Updated fish packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Dec 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0344.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8, 9
CVE: CVE-2023-49284

Mageia 9 is updated to version 3.6.4 to fix CVE-2023-49284.
Mageia 8 receives an upstream patch to fix CVE-2023-49284.
CVE-2023-49284: fish shell uses certain Unicode non-characters
internally for marking wildcards and expansions. It will incorrectly
allow these markers to be read on command substitution output, rather
than transforming them into a safe internal representation.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32614
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-49284

SRPMS:
- 8/core/fish-3.4.1-1.1.mga8
- 9/core/fish-3.6.4-1.mga9

Mageia 2023-0344: fish security update

Mageia 9 is updated to version 3.6.4 to fix CVE-2023-49284

Summary

Mageia 9 is updated to version 3.6.4 to fix CVE-2023-49284. Mageia 8 receives an upstream patch to fix CVE-2023-49284. CVE-2023-49284: fish shell uses certain Unicode non-characters internally for marking wildcards and expansions. It will incorrectly allow these markers to be read on command substitution output, rather than transforming them into a safe internal representation.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32614

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-49284

Resolution

MGASA-2023-0344 - Updated fish packages fix a security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/fish-3.4.1-1.1.mga8

- 9/core/fish-3.6.4-1.mga9

Severity
Publication date: 12 Dec 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0344.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-49284

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