Bug 30036

Summary:	rlwrap possible new security issue fixed upstream in 0.45.2
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Sec team <security>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andrewsfarm, davidwhodgins, herman.viaene, nicolas.salguero, sysadmin-bugs, tarazed25
Version:	8	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA8-64-OK
Source RPM:	rlwrap-0.43-4.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2022-02-11 22:03:51 CET

Fedora has issued an advisory today (February 11):
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/75IFRDJ4JMJTPQCPYVWJMIZTEJ6I367Y/

It's not clear what the security issue is, but the release notes are here:
https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap/releases

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2022-02-12 19:25:10 CET

This little visited SRPM has no registered nor evident maintainer, so having to assign this update globally.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 Nicolas Salguero 2022-02-15 13:57:02 CET

Suggested advisory:
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The updated package fixes a possible security vulnerability.

References:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/75IFRDJ4JMJTPQCPYVWJMIZTEJ6I367Y/
https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap/releases
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Updated package in core/updates_testing:
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rlwrap-0.45.2-1.mga8

from SRPM:
rlwrap-0.45.2-1.mga8.src.rpm

Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs
CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Version: Cauldron => 8

Comment 3 Herman Viaene 2022-02-17 11:00:37 CET

MGA8-64 Plasma on Lenovo B50 in Dutch
No installation issues.
No previous updtates,so started googling. From what I read this seemsto be a tool used in programming, but I coulldn't make any sense of the examples I found (often refering to some programming task).
Leaving for someone else with a better background than me, unless this can be OK'ed on clean install???

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 4 Len Lawrence 2022-02-17 13:29:28 CET

I just had a look at this Herman.  Looks like it is a way to use readline, which seems to be a function common to many programming languages and can be used at the cli via rlwrap.  Could not make enough sense of the man pages after more than an hour's reading to actually run it in any simple fashion so gave up for the time being.

My inclination is to say send it on.

CC: (none) => tarazed25

Herman Viaene 2022-02-17 13:33:23 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK

Comment 5 Thomas Andrews 2022-02-17 21:54:00 CET

Thanks for the effort, guys.

Validating. Advisory in Comment 2

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

Dave Hodgins 2022-02-18 00:17:03 CET

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 6 Mageia Robot 2022-02-18 01:15:33 CET

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0069.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED