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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2024-174-01 Critical: Emacs Arbitrary Commands

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent Emacs modules introduced to tackle vulnerabilities in Debian 11, providing enhanced defense against harmful scripts.
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-29.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Emacs 29.4 is an emergency bugfix release intended to fix a security vulnerability: Arbitrary shell commands are no longer run when turning on Org mode. This is for security reasons, to avoid running malicious commands. (* Security fix *)

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Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/emacs-29.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/emacs-29.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: f8dd0514f953401e675d6f80895f43b1 emacs-29.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 100d1844e95b9b29c693c64c05c7a063 emacs-29.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 527623759822b154558121c13de1cd18 e/emacs-29.4-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: fb6c3393bb28dd9fedd887e70c3d9564 e/emacs-29.4-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory security issue slackware arbitrary commands emacs

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg emacs-29.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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