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Following vulnerabilities discovered in tools many Linux and Information Security enthusiasts use such as the strings command and the bash shell, a new series of issues have been discovered in the less command. Less is used to paginate output, and can be used to view the text contents of a file one page at a time. It can also receive data from a pipe. Examples: less myfile.txt and xxd mybinfile | less">Adrien de Beaupr">Intru-shun.ca Inc.
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.Following vulnerabilities discovered in tools many Linux and Information Security enthusiasts use such as the strings command and the bash shell, a new series of issues have been discovered in the less command. Less is used to paginate output, and can be used to view the text contents of a file one page at a time. It can also receive data from a pipe. Examples: less myfile.txt and xxd mybinfile | less">Adrien de Beaupr">Intru-shun.ca Inc.
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.