Bug 2177771 (CVE-2023-1350)

Summary:	CVE-2023-1350 liferea: RCE vulnerability on feed enrichment
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vipul Nair <vinair>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Vipul Nair 2023-03-13 15:35:19 UTC

A vulnerability was found in liferea. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function update_job_run of the file src/update.c of the component Feed Enrichment. The manipulation of the argument source with the input |date &gt;/tmp/bad-item-link.txt leads to os command injection. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 8d8b5b963fa64c7a2122d1bbfbb0bed46e813e59. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-222848.

https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/commit/8d8b5b963fa64c7a2122d1bbfbb0bed46e813e59
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.222848
https://vuldb.com/?id.222848

Comment 1 Vipul Nair 2023-03-13 15:35:37 UTC

Created liferea tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2177772]

Comment 2 Vipul Nair 2023-03-13 15:36:41 UTC

Created liferea tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2177773]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-03-13 19:20:49 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.