CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-46663
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-02-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
Affected configurations
• gnu less (>= 566 < 609)
• fedoraproject fedora 37
References
- http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.html Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79c Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.html Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79c Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory