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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3481-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3481-01 - 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: Moderate: emacs security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3481-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3481
Issue date: 2023-06-06
CVE Names: CVE-2022-48339
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- Summary:
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. 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.
- Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch
- 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 htmlfontify.el (CVE-2022-48339)
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.
- 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
- Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2171989 - CVE-2022-48339 emacs: command injection vulnerability in htmlfontify.el
- Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.src.rpm
noarch:
emacs-filesystem-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
emacs-el-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
emacs-terminal-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.src.rpm
noarch:
emacs-filesystem-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
emacs-el-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
emacs-terminal-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.src.rpm
noarch:
emacs-filesystem-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
emacs-el-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
emacs-terminal-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.src.rpm
noarch:
emacs-filesystem-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-24.3-23.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
emacs-el-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.rpm
emacs-terminal-24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch.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/
- References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48339
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- 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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