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Red Hat 8 RHSA-2023-1930-01 Important Command Injection Threat

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest Emacs patch for Red Hat 8 introduces critical corrections targeting vulnerabilities related to command injection, bolstering system security.
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux command injection important update emacs patch

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 (v. 8):
aarch64: emacs-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: emacs-terminal-26.1-7.el8_7.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: emacs-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: emacs-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-7.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1930-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1930
Issue date: 2023-04-24

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux command injection important update emacs patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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