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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-2074-01 Important Emacs Update

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant security patch for Emacs, focusing on mitigating command injection vulnerabilities. Here are the essential details of the update.
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat important security impact emacs command injection

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. 9):
Source: emacs-27.2-6.el9_1.1.src.rpm
aarch64: emacs-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-debugsource-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: emacs-filesystem-27.2-6.el9_1.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: emacs-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debugsource-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: emacs-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-debugsource-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2074-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2074
Issue date: 2023-05-02

Topic

An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 update Red Hat important security impact emacs command injection

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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