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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3189-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3189-01 - 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-2023:3189-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3189
Issue date: 2023-05-17
CVE Names: CVE-2023-28617
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- Summary:
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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.
- Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1) - 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 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.
- 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/):
2180544 - CVE-2023-28617 emacs: command injection vulnerability in org-mode
- Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):
aarch64:
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
emacs-terminal-26.1-5.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-common-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-debugsource-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-lucid-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-lucid-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
emacs-nox-debuginfo-26.1-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1):
Source:
emacs-26.1-5.el8_1.1.src.rpm
noarch:
emacs-filesystem-26.1-5.el8_1.1.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-2023-28617
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- 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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