ALAS-2023-123


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-123
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-06 17:51 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-02-29 10:29 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

2024-02-29: CVE-2022-48624 was added to this advisory.

In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal. (CVE-2022-46663)

close_altfile in filename.c in less before 606 omits shell_quote calls for LESSCLOSE. (CVE-2022-48624)


Affected Packages:

less


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update less --releasever=2023.0.20230308 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    less-debuginfo-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    less-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    less-debugsource-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64

src:
    less-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.src

x86_64:
    less-debuginfo-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    less-debugsource-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    less-608-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64