Bug 2048633 (CVE-2022-23853) - CVE-2022-23853 ktexteditor: Missing validation of binaries executed via QProcess
Summary: CVE-2022-23853 ktexteditor: Missing validation of binaries executed via QProcess
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2022-23853
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2048635 2048634 2048636 2048637
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-31 16:17 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2022-01-31 17:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-01-31 17:01:40 UTC
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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.

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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.
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