Bug 1226420 (CVE-2024-38448)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-38448: global: htags may allow code execution via untrusted dbpath
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: SecurityAssignee: Security Team bot <security-team>
Status: IN_PROGRESS --- QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: Andreas.Stieger, carlos.lopez, sleep_walker
Version: Leap 15.6   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/411058/
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-17 08:30:17 UTC 
htags in GNU Global through 6.6.12 allows code execution in situations where dbpath (aka -d) is untrusted, because shell metacharacters may be used.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-38448
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38448
https://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/global/global/htags/htags.c?revision=1.236&view=markup
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-global/2024-05/msg00009.html
Comment 1 Andreas Stieger 2024-07-07 07:16:51 UTC 
TW bump to 6.6.13: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1185956
Leap backport: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1185958
Please process.