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High ALAS2023-2024-622 1 CVE

Important: less security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published May 23, 2024 · Updated May 28, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-32487: less through 653 allows OS command execution via a newline character in the name of a file, because quoting is mishandled in filename.c. Exploitation typically requires use with attacker-controlled file names, such as the files extracted from an untrusted archive. Exploitation also requires the LESSOPEN environment variable, but this is set by default in many common cases.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 less 0:608-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 less-debuginfo 0:608-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 less-debugsource 0:608-2.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-32487.html