Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1875-03 – Torchsec

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: less security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1875-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1875
Issue date: 2024-04-18
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2022-48624
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Summary:

An update for less is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

Description:

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: missing quoting of shell metacharacters in LESSCLOSE handling
(CVE-2022-48624)

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.

Solution:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2022-48624

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265081