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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHSA-2023-3725 Moderate Security Fix for less

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 classified as moderate severity: mitigates security vulnerabilities associated with improved text processing tool.
An update for less is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The "less" utility is a text file browser that resembles "more", but allows users to move backwards in the file as well as forwards. Since "less" does not read the entire input file at startup, it also starts more quickly than ordinary text editors.
Security Fix(es):
* less: crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal (CVE-2022-46663)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact less utility text file browser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46663 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: less-590-2.el9_2.src.rpm
aarch64: less-590-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm less-debuginfo-590-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm less-debugsource-590-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: less-590-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm less-debuginfo-590-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm less-debugsource-590-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: less-590-2.el9_2.s390x.rpm less-debuginfo-590-2.el9_2.s390x.rpm less-debugsource-590-2.el9_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: less-590-2.el9_2.x86_64.rpm less-debuginfo-590-2.el9_2.x86_64.rpm less-debugsource-590-2.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3725-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3725
Issue date: 2023-06-21

Topic

An update for less is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact less utility text file browser

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2169621 - CVE-2022-46663 less: crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal

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