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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2022-342-01 Critical: Emacs Command Execution

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent Emacs updates for Slackware address an urgent security flaw in versions 15.0 and -current. Please upgrade without delay!
New emacs packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/emacs-27.2-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the ctags program. For example, a victim may use the "ctags *" command (suggested in the ctags documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45939 (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 97de51db765e152d32a8cf5562961f81 emacs-27.2-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 91209777290bf8fd5e2ac918d72f14ba emacs-27.2-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 8d0bb1c76fe4e50fa33ecc6c3aaffce1 e/emacs-28.2-i586-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 3f8c307bb6e7e867cd360c4fa914a70f e/emacs-28.2-x86_64-2.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg emacs-27.2-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

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