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Red Hat 8.4 RHSA-2023:1958-01 Important Emacs Command Injection

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Emacs Update for Red Hat 8.4 classified as Critical due to vulnerability in command execution. Implement the most recent security patches immediately.
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

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 important security Red Hat Enterprise command injection emacs update

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 EUS (v.8.4):
aarch64: emacs-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: emacs-terminal-26.1-5.el8_4.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: emacs-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: emacs-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1958-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1958
Issue date: 2023-04-25

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Extended Update Support.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 important security Red Hat Enterprise command injection emacs update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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