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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.827828
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora: Security Advisory for less (FEDORA-2023-71442d7613)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'less'; package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2023-71442d7613 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'less'
package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2023-71442d7613 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
The less utility is a text file browser that resembles more, but has
more capabilities. Less allows you to move backwards in the file as
well as forwards. Since less doesn', t have to read the entire input file
before it starts, less starts up more quickly than text editors (for
example, vi).

You should install less because it is a basic utility for viewing text
files, and you', ll use it frequently.

Affected Software/OS:
'less' package(s) on Fedora 37.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-46663
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.html
https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79c
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7
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