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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2074-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2074-01 - GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language, and the capability to read e-mail and news. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: emacs security update
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
CVE Names: CVE-2023-28617
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  1. Summary:

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 impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

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

  1. Description:

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.

  1. 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

  1. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

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

  1. 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
emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
emacs-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debugsource-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-lucid-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-27.2-6.el9_1.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

  1. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28617
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

  1. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
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