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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0025-1 Critical: Kitty RCE Patch

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Calendar Grey January 7, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Recent enhancement for kitty within openSUSE tackles critical vulnerability linked to RCE, reinforcing system security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for kitty fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2020-35605: Fixed an RCE due to filenames containing special

characters contained in error messages (boo#1180298).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-25=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

kitty-0.16.0-lp152.2.3.1

kitty-debuginfo-0.16.0-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35605.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180298

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0025-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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