glsa-202211-02.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202211-02">
    <title>lesspipe: Arbitrary Code Exeecution</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in lesspipe which could result in arbitrary code execution.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">lesspipe</product>
    <announced>2022-11-10</announced>
    <revised count="1">2022-11-10</revised>
    <bug>865631</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-text/lesspipe" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">2.06</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">2.06</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>lesspipe is a preprocessor for less.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>lesspipe has support for parsing Perl storable (&#34;PST&#34;) files,</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>A crafted Perl storable file which is passed into lesspipe could result in arbitrary code execution.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All lesspipe users should update to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/lesspipe-2.06"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44542">CVE-2022-44542</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-11-10T16:33:11.165769Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-11-10T16:33:11.170829Z">ajak</metadata>
</glsa>