Moderate: less security update

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 Fixes: less: crafted data can result i...

ALSA-2023:3725 Moderate: less security update

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 Fixes: less: crafted data can result i...

Fedora 37 : less (2023-71442d7613)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-71442d7613 advisory. Security fix for CVE-2022-46663 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus h...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : less (EulerOS-SA-2023-2125)

According to the versions of the less package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in 'less -R' not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal. CVE-2022-4666...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for less (EulerOS-SA-2023-2073)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

rubygem-rack: crafted requests can cause shell escape sequences

A flaw was found in ruby gem-rack. This flaw allows a malicious actor to craft requests that can cause shell escape sequences to be written to the terminal via rack's Lint middleware and CommonLogger middleware. This issue can leverage these escape sequences to execute commands in the victim's...

RHEL 7 : Red Hat Gluster Storage web-admin-build (RHSA-2023:1486)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1486 advisory. Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB. Django is a high-level Python...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

less is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS attacks. A malicious user is able to use crafted data, which results in less -R not filtering ANSI escape sequences sending to the terminal, causing the application to crash...

OESA-2023-1129 less security update

Less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.Other pagers commonly in use are more and pg. Pagers are often used in command-line environments like the Unix shell and the MS-DOS command prompt to display files.Less is not an editor. You can't change the contents of the file you'r...

SUSE CVE-2003-0020

Apache does not filter terminal escape sequences from its error logs, which could make it easier for attackers to insert those sequences into terminal emulators containing vulnerabilities related to escape sequences...

SUSE CVE-2004-1488

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code...

SUSE CVE-2006-7236

The default configuration of xterm on Debian GNU/Linux sid and possibly Ubuntu enables the allowWindowOps resource, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecified other impact via escape sequences...

SUSE CVE-2007-4766

Multiple integer overflows in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 7.3 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via unspecified escape backslash sequences...

SUSE CVE-2009-4487

nginx 0.7.64 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator...

SUSE CVE-2009-4492

WEBrick 1.3.1 in Ruby 1.8.6 through patchlevel 383, 1.8.7 through patchlevel 248, 1.8.8dev, 1.9.1 through patchlevel 376, and 1.9.2dev writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrar...

SUSE CVE-2009-4491

thttpd 2.25b0 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator...

SUSE CVE-2014-3121

rxvt-unicode before 9.20 does not properly handle OSC escape sequences, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to manipulate arbitrary X window properties and execute arbitrary commands...

SUSE CVE-2014-8166

The browsing feature in the server in CUPS does not filter ANSI escape sequences from shared printer names, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted printer name...

SUSE CVE-2017-7467

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process...

SUSE CVE-2017-10784

The Basic authentication code in WEBrick library in Ruby before 2.2.8, 2.3.x before 2.3.5, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject terminal emulator escape sequences into its log and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a crafted user name...