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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:3042-01 Moderate: Emacs Command Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
CentOS 8 Stream features a vim enhancement that addresses low severity vulnerabilities, with patches now released.
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: 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 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update command execution moderate severity Red Hat Enterprise emacs

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-45939 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: emacs-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: emacs-terminal-26.1-9.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: emacs-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: emacs-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-common-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-debugsource-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: emacs-26.1-9.el8.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-26.1-9.el8.x86_64.rpm emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-9.el8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3042-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3042
Issue date: 2023-05-16

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 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 security issue software update command execution moderate severity Red Hat Enterprise emacs

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

1991156 - Error given on trying to compose outgoing email - suggested fix included

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

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