CVE-2023-28101
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-16 15:55
Modified
2024-08-02 12:30
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
Flatpak metadata with ANSI control codes can cause misleading terminal output
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/409e34187de2b2b2c4ef34c79f417be698830f6cPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/6cac99dafe6003c8a4bd5666341c217876536869Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/7fe63f2e8f1fd2dafc31d45154cf0b191ebec66cPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-h43h-fwqx-mpp8Patch, Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-12
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