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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-2366-01 Moderate: Emacs Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu issues a patch for vim impacting Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, classified as Medium severity.
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: ctags local command execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-45939)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory command execution security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact emacs

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-45939 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: emacs-27.2-8.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: emacs-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.aarch64.rpm
noarch: emacs-filesystem-27.2-8.el9.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: emacs-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: emacs-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-debugsource-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-8.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: emacs-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-27.2-8.el9.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2366-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2366
Issue date: 2023-05-09

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory command execution security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact emacs

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1979804 - emacs: portable dumper incompatible with 64K pages on aarch64

2006856 - RPM inspection failure about hardening binaries

2149380 - CVE-2022-45939 emacs: ctags local command execution vulnerability

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