Bug 833152

Summary:	<kde-apps/kate-21.12.1: untrusted binary execution
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220131-1.txt
Whiteboard:	B2 [stable?]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	833154

Description John Helmert III archtester

2022-02-12 03:45:08 UTC

Alias:
CVE-2022-23853:

The LSP (Language Server Protocol) plugin in KDE Kate before 21.12.2 and KTextEditor before 5.91.0 tries to execute the associated LSP server binary when opening a file of a given type. If this binary is absent from the PATH, it will try running the LSP server binary in the directory of the file that was just opened (due to a misunderstanding of the QProcess API, that was never intended). This can be an untrusted directory.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-02-12 03:56:40 UTC

I thought I'd filed bugs for this but note that (thanks to asturm for pointing it out) it's one or t'other -- the frameworks fix covers Kate too.

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2022-02-16 18:40:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 832447 ***