CVE-2022-46663

Summary

CVECVE-2022-46663
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-07 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:55:00 UTC
DescriptionIn GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Gnu Less All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
less: Denial of service (GLSA 202310-11) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
End OSC8 hyperlink on invalid embedded escape sequence. · gwsw/less@a78e135 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: less-633-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - CVE-2022-46663: less -R filtering bypass MISC www.openwall.com
Greenwood Software MISC www.greenwoodsoftware.com
oss-security - CVE-2022-46663: less -R filtering bypass MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: less-633-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160751 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for less (ELSA-2023-3725)
  • 183216 Debian Security Update for less (CVE-2022-46663)
  • 199168 Ubuntu Security Notification for less Vulnerability (USN-5848-1)
  • 241739 Red Hat Update for less (RHSA-2023:3725)
  • 284022 Fedora Security Update for less (FEDORA-2023-71442d7613)
  • 296099 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 57.144.3 Missing (CPUAPR2023)
  • 355219 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for less : ALAS2023-2023-123
  • 673135 EulerOS Security Update for less (EulerOS-SA-2023-2297)
  • 673168 EulerOS Security Update for less (EulerOS-SA-2023-2273)
  • 710770 Gentoo Linux less Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (GLSA 202310-11)
  • 753673 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for less (SUSE-SU-2023:0348-1)
  • 905465 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for less (13350)
  • 906523 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for less (13350-1)
  • 906649 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for less (13350-3)
  • 941155 AlmaLinux Security Update for less (ALSA-2023:3725)
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