Bug 833154

Summary:	[Tracker] Untrusted binary execution in KTextEditor/Kate
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220131-1.txt
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	832447, 833152, 833153
Bug Blocks:

Description John Helmert III archtester

2022-02-12 03:47:55 UTC

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."