CVE-2022-46663

Name
CVE-2022-46663
Description
In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79c
MISC http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.html
MISC https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:less:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* less >= 566 < 609

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
less 3.17-main 608-r1 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
less 3.16-main 590-r1 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
less 3.15-main 590-r1 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable