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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2023-1915-01 Critical Command Injection

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu launched a significant fix for vim, resolving buffer overflow vulnerabilities to enhance safety.
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterpris...

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.
Security Fix(es):
* emacs: command injection vulnerability in org-mode (CVE-2023-28617)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important emacs command injection RHEL 8.2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28617 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2):
aarch64: emacs-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: emacs-terminal-26.1-5.el8_2.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: emacs-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: emacs-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1915-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1915
Issue date: 2023-04-20

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAPSolutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important emacs command injection RHEL 8.2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.2) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v. 8.2) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2180544 - CVE-2023-28617 emacs: command injection vulnerability in org-mode

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