Bug 2048633 (CVE-2022-23853)

Summary:	CVE-2022-23853 ktexteditor: Missing validation of binaries executed via QProcess
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jgrulich, jreznik, kde-sig, me, rdieter, than
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Bug Depends On:	2048635, 2048634, 2048636, 2048637
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2022-01-31 16:17:04 UTC

KTextEditor and Kate execute binaries without user interaction in a few cases.

References:

https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220131-1.txt

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2022-01-31 16:17:33 UTC

Created kate tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 2048637]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2048636]


Created kf5-ktexteditor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2048635]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2048634]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-31 17:01:37 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.