- Issued:
- 2024-04-02
- Updated:
- 2024-04-02
RHSA-2024:1610 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Moderate: less security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An update for less is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Fixes
- BZ - 2265081 - CVE-2022-48624 less: missing quoting of shell metacharacters in LESSCLOSE handling
CVEs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8
SRPM | |
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less-530-2.el8_9.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce272015fb6e092a4cdec273469a8cd88293a02e4a510d3c687044e62205c32 |
x86_64 | |
less-530-2.el8_9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 559c0b0a33c274fe5b45f34283318e1bc2b628418e01b8ec3a85d3a3588f9281 |
less-debuginfo-530-2.el8_9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 5160e12a7bb694fa3f4565c3a23c531a6d57596cccc8535a87c73be8b5a21989 |
less-debugsource-530-2.el8_9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 78873e6ad755733fdb37bb512a827d691ce96e20ca504c43edaab51bfcd10516 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8
SRPM | |
---|---|
less-530-2.el8_9.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce272015fb6e092a4cdec273469a8cd88293a02e4a510d3c687044e62205c32 |
s390x | |
less-530-2.el8_9.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: cf30f29022564abc84071c580ec101233e6a48f963a3e913e859a1ea187c2daf |
less-debuginfo-530-2.el8_9.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: a962e71e6816de2484e6c762252328420f609a00f0b23ee00200534eb4184f38 |
less-debugsource-530-2.el8_9.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: a48ae39b59ba75decc9040f45d692eaf6297b06208156e6ee22600361daf69cd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8
SRPM | |
---|---|
less-530-2.el8_9.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce272015fb6e092a4cdec273469a8cd88293a02e4a510d3c687044e62205c32 |
ppc64le | |
less-530-2.el8_9.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: a53018bd6ace5736aaf50f9f3fe6bb36b8d2b1b772c22a9372d89aee36edefe0 |
less-debuginfo-530-2.el8_9.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: cbcf977710b2e376dab6341ab4fd15dfab5b0197cf971d5dd0ca0dcc6ae222cd |
less-debugsource-530-2.el8_9.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 1331da796e089b41c76444420b309652c45210600c6e9a9defb30d26b4270fb8 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8
SRPM | |
---|---|
less-530-2.el8_9.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce272015fb6e092a4cdec273469a8cd88293a02e4a510d3c687044e62205c32 |
aarch64 | |
less-530-2.el8_9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 0ebffef869c5152968a5c084aa6a64eb032b2e02d4bae2e881732699c165b691 |
less-debuginfo-530-2.el8_9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: ff011a120d5f06cbe301a5d82a649a59f9e461e294b00c2f94f6c1d064f32989 |
less-debugsource-530-2.el8_9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: c3592e40e6bf782b16439b32846241d2b51bcc6b7f8a73bd062660ebf575235f |
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